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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 18:28 Edited at: 19th Apr 2012 18:29
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One of our cats has just walked over the keyboard on my laptop. This was the result:



It took me quite a while to work out how he managed to type the Euro symbol - and it isn't easy. He first needed to turn on the numpad mode - then type alt+0128 (from the numpad keys). He did it without using Google too.
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budokaiman
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 18:38 Edited at: 19th Apr 2012 18:39
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ctrl+alt+4 should also type the Euro symbol.

Also, Internet Explorer? You need to teach him about better browsers.

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bruce3371
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 18:46
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One day cats will develope opposable thumbs and take over the world.....

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:04
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Quote: "ctrl+alt+4 should also type the Euro symbol."


So it does, thanks. I would never have tried that.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:13
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Quote: "ctrl+alt+4 should also type the Euro symbol"


Or alt gr + 4. This is most likely how it happened. It's alt gr + E on this keyboard.



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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:17
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Also, the cat was trying to type "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" as though he's really excited he can operate a keyboard...obviously with a margin for error, but then he's a cat and we all make typos.

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The Slayer
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:21
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
How long did it take you for teaching him/her that trick, GG? Two more weeks, and he/she will be playing Half Life.

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:26
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He was teaching me. I didn't even know it was possible to type the Euro symbol till he showed me.

I'm waiting for him to show me how to write a decent tabby fur shader...
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:31
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Well I have infinite cats, and when they walked across my keyboard I got this...

http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/assets/i/CompleteWorksJacket.jpg

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 19:35 Edited at: 24th Apr 2012 20:43
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Are you sure your cats aren't chimps in disguise?

Edit Inserted missing word.
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Posted: 19th Apr 2012 23:38 Edited at: 19th Apr 2012 23:39
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HowDo
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Posted: 23rd Apr 2012 10:38
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yours is not the only cat,I sure mines read a book or something cause she found out how to do a keyboard lockout, had to look it up to find how it was done, turn out you do this, hold the shift key down for five second, and again to unlock it.

but there are other as well, where I could not work what had be done and had to re install explorer, pain that was, worse that a download that messes with the setting.

wonder what she'll teach me today?

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Oster200
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Posted: 24th Apr 2012 02:54
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My cat has runined a lot of my games because it decided to put a password on a game which I did not know. Made a lock monitor thing but that was fixed easily.

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