A Hard Habit to BreakToday I was doing some work for an old client of mine, and, since he uses Windows in his office, I was forced to remember a lot of old keyboard shortcuts. While using the edit program (in a dos window), I was using alt-f,s a lot. I think it must have damaged my brain or something since I just tried to save a file on my MacBook by using alt-f,s! What was I thinking? Next thing you know I’m going to be trying to copy/paste with ctrl/shift insert! Also while working today, I was reminded of the *ahem* joys of IRQ conflicts. Trying to get a legacy ISA voice card to work in a modern system is a pain and a half. Trust me on this one. To make matters worse, the card is discontinued, the company that made it no longer exists, and the internet has almost no information on it at all. This makes things…. interesting. Oddly enough, I found out what its hardcoded I/O port was fairly quickly; it just took me two hours to find out that its hardcoded IRQ was conflicting with a plug-and-play device. It sure would have been nice to get a warning instead of just silently not working. Regardless, after finding out this problem and making a few changes to the BIOS settings things were running smoothly. |
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