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If you hold down both shift keys on your keyboard, only certain letters will operate. The odd thing about this though is that it's different for each keyboard.

try it!

I got - QWERTHJKLZXCVBNM

I wonder how many variants there are, and why?

Date: 2001-03-30 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papoose.livejournal.com
DON'T TRY THIS ON A UNIX BOX!!!!!!

hi scotto :)

Re:

Date: 2001-03-30 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
what happens on a unix box? :))

hee hee

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papoose.livejournal.com
well, I'm not going to try it just to let you know.

You can't just go pressing keys. It's not like you go rebooting these things every half hour. That's why they have an OS that really works.

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
well, I have a dual boot unix/windows box at home... I'll boot in unix, and see what happens. :)

usually, you're pretty safe in a text editor. :)

Date: 2001-03-30 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] applelard.livejournal.com
Mine is WERTYUIASDGJLCVN

Date: 2001-03-30 07:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toosweet.livejournal.com
ok...lets try

QWERUIOPASDFGHJKLBN

Date: 2001-03-30 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imperfectly.livejournal.com
i wanna do it too !

QWERTLKJHZXCVBNM

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
yours is the closest to mine so far!!

Date: 2001-03-30 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bsgi.livejournal.com
I can do every key except the home row letters: "QWERTYUIOP"

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
that seems to be a common one... hmm..

Date: 2001-03-30 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billijean.livejournal.com
Okay...
WERTYUIASDGJLCVN

Well, that doesn't look anything like the others. Hmmmm...vedy ineresting!

Date: 2001-03-30 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] look.livejournal.com
ASDFGHJKL:"ZXCVBNM<>?

i just can't do the top row!

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
curiouser and curioser...

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
See the goofy things that turn up?

Date: 2001-03-30 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyfire.livejournal.com
I just hafta...

QWERTYUIOP{}ASDFGHJKL:"ZXCVBNM<>?

all of em except the numbahs

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Date: 2001-03-30 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
are you using windows ME(h), or win 2k?

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Date: 2001-03-30 10:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyfire.livejournal.com
WindowsME ugh LOL

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Date: 2001-03-30 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
ach!! that's why.

Me(h)

icky.

Shift keys!

Date: 2001-03-30 09:22 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Well here's another interesting fact about the shift keys. If you hold down the right "shift" key longer than 16 secs. it disables the keyboard. Then you have to shut down the machine or hold the right "shift" key again for more than 16 seconds and a nice little sound let's you know your keyboard is operational again. I have only tried it on W2K and NT.

Tman

Re: Shift keys!

Date: 2001-03-30 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Reeeeeeealy? how spiffy!!

I'll have to look into that QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

looks like win2k allows all the keys too..hmm.

Post time!

Date: 2001-03-30 09:24 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hmm... Scotto I just noticed the time on our posts dont match yours. Right now it is 1225 here, but my post will probably reflect 0900 something!!!

Tman

Re: Post time!

Date: 2001-03-30 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
how weird!!

I wonder if it's reading the system time?

Date: 2001-03-30 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
SDFGHJKLZXVBNM<>?":~@#$%^&*()_+

in order

Date: 2001-03-30 10:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
~@#$%^&*()_+|SDFGHJKL:"ZXVBNM<>?

Re: in order

Date: 2001-03-30 10:38 am (UTC)

Date: 2001-03-30 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drownedinink.livejournal.com
Hmm...

Wow. Actually all the letters still work! (I'm using a Dell QuietKey by the way.)

WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Date: 2001-03-30 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drownedinink.livejournal.com
OK, right, type of keyboard don't matter...I'm using Windows 98 and it isn't every key that works...the numerals don't.

See what happens when I miss my morning coffee?

Re: WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Date: 2001-03-30 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
hmmm!!

more coffee for you!

Date: 2001-03-30 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ktm
QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

hmm...

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Date: 2001-03-30 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ktm
Yup!

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Date: 2001-03-30 11:30 am (UTC)

Here you go...

Date: 2001-03-30 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missv.livejournal.com
BCEHJKLMNQRTVWXZ!@#$%%^&*()_~{}|:"<>?

Oddly, all the symbol/number keys work except for the +/= one.

Hmmmm, I wonder what the letters that don't work spell?

A D F G I O P S U Y

"Fad, you pigs!"

Coooooool!

Doh!

Date: 2001-03-30 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missv.livejournal.com
I just realized.....

We have the same result, Scotto! I'm your evil twin.....weeeehooties!

(If I hadn't been such a geek about typing mine in a alphabetical order, rather than in "keyboard order" like everybody else, I would've figgered that out much sooner.)

Re: Doh!

Date: 2001-03-30 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
hmm... sinister.

I think you have the antithesis of my machine...

nifty!

Re: Here you go...

Date: 2001-03-30 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
it's the forgotten name of the evil spirt windows uses to conjure it's error messages...

speak it's name thrice and you'll have a unix machine, or a bleeding hallway to the netherworld.

Date: 2001-03-30 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurak.livejournal.com
ACDEGIJLNRSTUVWY

weird :)

And for some reason, this is reminding me of the song from Sesame Street, where Big Bird sings the alphabet like its one long word.

hehehehe

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, its the most remarkable word I've ever seen!

ok I'm done

Date: 2001-03-30 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filthymonkey.livejournal.com
UIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

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Date: 2001-03-30 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
hmm... windows 98??

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Date: 2001-03-31 09:26 am (UTC)

Date: 2001-03-31 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] intenselee.livejournal.com
QWERTHJKLZXCVBNM - Win95plus

Date: 2004-08-26 12:32 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I got: ABDEFGHIJKLNOPQRSUW

Date: 2004-08-26 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Neat! pleased to have you visit!

Date: 2004-08-26 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juliabee.livejournal.com
I got: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ<>?|{}

Can't do the top row, or the number pad, though.

:0)

Date: 2004-08-26 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
hm! a little tardy!

Windows 2000?

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