
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow. Seriously, with Math and everything.

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow. Seriously, with Math and everything.

As a player of WoW, and a Mac user, I found the Apple Aluminum Keyboard (which I otherwise LOVE to DEATH) a bit troublesome. In WoW, fkeys are prebound to control a set of functions that are very often accessed, but which – on the Aluminum Keyboard- are mapped to other functions (iTunes and Exposé, notably). I could turn on the “Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as standard function keys” option in the Sys Prefs (Funny story on that, below), but then I couldn’t rock out to Icky Thump as I’m Pwning N00bz, without troublesome window switching. (more…)