Oh good, I've always wanted to use a PC keyboard on my Mac. I've always wondered why Apple didn't include support for PC keyboards, the same way they include support for PC applications and PC games. And Zunes.

You have the wrong end of the stick, Stephen. If Apple didn't support PC keyboards, I wouldn't have much of a problem with that (though it would jibe somewhat with their marketing for the Mac Mini, based entirely around the idea that PC users can switch to the Mini and use their existing PC keyboard and mouse). But Apple do support PC keyboards. They just fuck it up.

Oh, and I've yet to find anything made for Apple as good as the Saitek Eclipse II, which I'm using right now. It's just superb.

Just d

Just download the Visual Studio 2008 betas and get with the programme already.

(BTW that was Safari which cocked up, this IE.)

Install Microsoft betas? You mean, the programs that, one day, once they've been heavily debugged, will be good enough to be released as version 1, which will be so buggy no-one in their right minds would risk installing them? Yeah, good idea, Mark. [cough]

Safari generally does cock up. It is shite, verily. IE's actually really good from a user's point of view. It's just hell when you're designing.

Well I'm digging LINQ and the new Javacript intellisense a great deal and the VS'08 betas are the only way to check it out. No probs so far.

Uh, so, let me understand this:

To make your scroll-wheel work on VBA, you have to download a file or three, do some jiggery-pokery, and then it just works; this is BAD.

To make a PC keyboard work on a MAC (aside - and I would want to do that...why?) you have to download an application, figure out how to program it, and then it just works; this is GOOD.

wtf?

Andrew, you seem to have misread "They just fuck it up" as "this is GOOD".


> and I would want to do that...why?

Because there are some really nice keyboards made for PCs. And because I use both types of machine, so using the same keyboard layout for both makes life more convenient for my fingers.

Go here. Drop the .exe somewhere, run it on start-up.

Thanks, but no need. The Microsoft fix works just fine, and you don't need to run anything on startup. My problem with it is that Microsoft should have installed it properly in VB6 itself, rather than requiring their users to do it.

See also "this train is delayed due to late arrival of coaching stock". What that means is that this service is late, because the previous service that turns into this service is late. Or, "this train is late because it is late."