Tip of the day: Remap keys you don’t use

I never press the Caps Lock or Insert keys on my keyboard intentionally.

Years ago, before my Touchstream, I did this trick to remove them. Now that I’m back to an awful standard keyboard, I Googled it up again.

Remapping keys in Windows.

My Scancode Map is “00000000 00000000 03000000 00003A00 000052E0 00000000”, which disables the Caps Lock and Insert keys.

Trying out a Second Life

I’ve been trying to try out a new game called Second Life. I finally managed to run it today after taking one of ‘s somewhat-older video cards to use instead of my wonderful-for-CAD-but-doesn’t-work-on-games FireGL E1. The game is basically like an old-fashioned MUX, but a 3D MMORPG world. The basic account is free. You interact with others in this virtual community, in a world made up primarily of what its participants created. Participants create objects and script them to do things. It seems pretty neat. My name there is Peter Newchurch if anyone else wants to jump on as well. (And apparently I may get some bonus if you sign on using my referrer link.)