http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/02/16/my-new-powerbook-has-no-hash-key en-us 40 Rolling on Rails <p><em>Well this is odd.</em></p> <p>I go out and buy a very tasty, shiny new <a href="http://www.apple.com/uk/">Apple PowerBook <span class="caps">G4 17</span></a> for a rather hefty amount of ££s and you know what, it <strong>didn&#8217;t even have a hash key</strong>!</p> <p>Now this could be a rather big drawback as the main reason for buying the PowerBook was so that I could run the world&#8217;s <a href="http://macromates.com/">greatest text editor</a> for Ruby (<em>and that&#8217;s another story</em>)!</p> <p>Anyone who has programmed in Ruby will realise the drawback of not having a # since this is used for commenting. It&#8217;s also a requirement for many Unix-based config files (although when using Nano the key combination <code>Esc - Esc - 035</code> produces a #).</p> <p>A quick Google later and the answer is pretty simple&#8230; <code>alt - 3</code> produces a big fat <strong>#</strong></p> <p>Apart from that the PowerBook is sweet (and much more on that later).</p> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:46:00 +0000 urn:uuid:53bb51c718b115bca2ebc39b38df031f ben@slashdotdash.net (Ben) http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/02/16/my-new-powerbook-has-no-hash-key Mac OS X http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/trackback/8 <p>Welcome to the club! I&#8217;ve got the same machine and it rules. Make sure you stock it up with RAM though. It&#8217;s a very capable machine, but with too little RAM you might &#8216;upgrade itch&#8217; unnecessarily :)</p> <p>I&#8217;ve got 1.5GB on mine (just added a single 1GB to the stock 512) and it has seemed slow on anything I&#8217;ve been doing.</p> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:30:43 +0000 urn:uuid: http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/02/16/my-new-powerbook-has-no-hash-key#comment-2