Thu, 16 Feb 2006

My new PowerBook has no HASH (#) key

Posted by Ben Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:46:00 GMT

Well this is odd.

I go out and buy a very tasty, shiny new Apple PowerBook G4 17 for a rather hefty amount of ££s and you know what, it didn’t even have a hash key!

Now this could be a rather big drawback as the main reason for buying the PowerBook was so that I could run the world’s greatest text editor for Ruby (and that’s another story)!

Anyone who has programmed in Ruby will realise the drawback of not having a # since this is used for commenting. It’s also a requirement for many Unix-based config files (although when using Nano the key combination Esc - Esc - 035 produces a #).

A quick Google later and the answer is pretty simple… alt - 3 produces a big fat #

Apart from that the PowerBook is sweet (and much more on that later).

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  1. Peter Cooper 6 days later:

    Welcome to the club! I’ve got the same machine and it rules. Make sure you stock it up with RAM though. It’s a very capable machine, but with too little RAM you might ‘upgrade itch’ unnecessarily :)

    I’ve got 1.5GB on mine (just added a single 1GB to the stock 512) and it has seemed slow on anything I’ve been doing.

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