Funk Babblings

Heh, luckily all those keys except Power are in the same (lower left) corner of the keyboard. Basically it's "mash the corner of the keyboard and hit Power with the other hand." Similarly, forcing a Mac program (at least on "classic" MacOS) to quit is "mash the corner of the keyboard and hit Escape with the other hand."

The key combination to get into OpenFirmware is more difficult, since it requires hitting at least two keys on each side of the keyboard. And my erroneous way of doing it probably would've required a tail if I had shorter fingers.


Macs claim to be easy, "what you see is what you get," but there are countless hidden tricks, especially key combinations, that require just as much memorization as a command line -- but without the similarity to language. Some of these are supposed to be done regularly, but there's nothing on screen mentioning them. (I always have to look up the "rebuild desktop" combo.)