Todays top tip

[ARW]

Don't buy a FIAT

I think I have mentioned this tip before.

I got the AA twice today for two different vans.

[spuorgelgoog]

My top tips:

Don't pay British Gas £300 for one hour's labour to swap a radiator.

Don't pay British Gas home cover on a kettle, microwave and toaster.

Don't pay British Gas £3000 for a new boiler when they don't complete the benchmark commissioning form or register it with LABC.

Don't pay (forgotten their name) £800 on a home visit for an eye test and glasses when the NHS will do it for free.

Don't pay £700 for two armchairs advertised in Radio Times.

My mother did, and she was quite sensible with money. Someone gullible coul d have been seriously ripped off.

Owain

[newshound]

Don't listen to nice lady on phone who says there is a problem with your computer. I was a bit busy today, otherwise I would have asked her which of the six she meant, and which of the five operating systems.

[Dave Liquorice]

I did have the time the other week and it took a good ten minutes before he gave up. He remained polite through out, with increasing amount of puzzlement as the call progressed and the "windows key" + wasn't doing what he wanted/expected. Well it wouldn't, OS/2 ignores the "windows" key...

[Bob Eager]

I don't even have a "windows" key. And never have had!

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Bob Eager escribió:

pssst ... Ctrl-Esc.

[Jeff Layman]

Not on Mint. The Windows key brings up the Menu.

AFAICT, Ctrl-Esc does nothing. YMMV.

[spuorgelgoog]

I have lots, mostly hanging on hooks near the window.

Owain

[Nightjar]

My cousin, who used to have a fairly large taxi business, running specialised disabled transport for the local authority, would only buy Ford Transits.

[Dave Liquorice]

wouldn't,

If I have the time I prefer to play them along as much as possible. If they are talking to me and not going to get what they are after, they aren't talking to someone else from whom they may get what they are after.

[Dave Liquorice]

Can't remember the last time I saw a keyboard without a "windows" key. This PS/2 Compaq keyboard I'm using has two and the "menu" key and it must be approaching 15 years old, maybe more.

[GB]

+1

The lady enquiring about my traffic accident "in the last two years" unfortunately hung up on me quite quickly. It was my fault. She asked me how many other passengers were in the car, and I just blurted out the first answer that came into my head, which happened to be 23.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its on this keyboard. But I have no idea what it does.

Oh. It brings up the main menu in MATE.

That's cute.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yep.

Ive finally worked out what to do with the caps lock key.

It now nets me thïñgß..like that!

LOL

[The Natural Philosopher]

Apple keyboards have something else. Think it generates the same codes

[Tim Streater]

None of the keyboards here has one.

[Tim Streater]

Disabled on every keyboard I use.

I press the alt key ?or thøse. And with Keyboard Viewer showing, I can see what character I'm going to get.

[Huge]

Not exactly news.

Or anything French.

Or anything made by Samsung or Panasonic.

[Huge]

[Adrian Caspersz]

If I were a monster in charge of company IT, I'd purposely disable it on every keyboard and if anyone complained they'd be pointed at a typIng co urse,