Posts by Spineapple

Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95

Re: C,X,V Predates computing

Which is the point everyone is missing; the commands are this way because that's what's ergonomically sensible on a QWERTY keyboard with a control/command button in the bottom left corner.

Look at C, X and V on such a keyboard. Notice anything? They're all in the same quadrant and easily accessible with one hand and one finger on the ctrl/cmd.

Funny that the most frequently used text manipulation shortcuts should be accessible in this way. Ergonomics baby!

The fact that Cut happens to be Ctrl+C is, I feel, a happy coincidence - interference with break commanding aside, and agree that the overlap with break commanding is unfortunate - but apparently surmountable, so here we are!

Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty

In the early days of my computing higher learning one of the tasks for the class was to create a bootable USB with an operating system of the students choice and install it to what was, let's be honest, a piece of scrap metal, documenting the steps while doing so then performing some basic configuration once running.

While everyone else was installing XP (and maybe the odd Ubuntu) my OS of choice was Haiku. This was 2010-ish so must have been early Alpha stages, but it did everything I needed it to do to pass that module.

Glad to see it's still progressing and doing well, I may spin it up again and see what's changed.