I am trying to start early christmas shopping and I wanted to get my boyfriend a good, unique alarm clock. He is a heavy sleeper and frequently misses class because the alarm doesn't wake him up, or he turns it off half-asleep. The only other thing is i'm not willing to spend an incredible amount on it.
I'm actually going through a divorce right now and that sounds like a real good form of therapy. next time i'll pretend i'm running over the deadbeat.thanx, i feel better already!
Scroll lock is from back in the DOS days, and also still works in Linux. Back before there were screen editors (think MSDOS EDIT or even notepad would be considered a screen editor, linux think vi or nano). Often times you would have a huge file needing reading. that was done via a command called typeC: type config.sys cr Well when the files were huge they would just keep scrolling right ? Well then (finally in like DOS 5.0 i think it first appeared) you could do C: type config.sys | more which would page list the file. But before that what were you supposed to do ? Well Scroll Lock would stop the screen from scrolling (hence the LOCK part).
I found a use for it once on some DOS application years and years ago and it did just what it said on the tin, it stopped the screen from scrolling. I think it was some IBM terminal emulation package, but it was somewhere like 20 years ago. Looking at pedia, Excel uses it it makes the up/down arrows scroll the window contents and not the active box. yawn yawn, so valuable a function I guess it fills a hole in the keyboard layout now and not much else
