all my keyboards need
the Function key deployed at every boot for the F keys to work as normal otherwise they default to the keyboards built in alt functions.
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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Thu 12 Feb 2009, 22:43,
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that's because they're shitty microsoft keyboards or imitations thereof
MS, in their infinite wisdom, decided that people didn't really use the F keys and would be better off with buttons that trigger Outlook Express instead.
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Ratsta,
Thu 12 Feb 2009, 23:20,
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