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Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Peter on April 28, 2003, 07:18:00 PM

I have to write a long essay in school (to prove I can type   ) but the school recently switched to Dell DTs with these keyboards that act really weird.  They type hard (have to press real hard for recognition)  I was wondering if I could attach my eMac's keyboard to the Dell's USB and get it to work.

Only need word proccesing, other functions un-needed

Thanks,
Peter

Also take a look at my new website : www.angelfire.com/mac2/organicfarmer

Please all criticism and suggestions are very welcomed, I can't think of material to add to the website.

thanks again

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: krissel on April 28, 2003, 10:40:00 PM

I don't know about the keyboard issue. Windows sometimes requires drivers for things that just "work" on the Mac automatically. Someone more familiar with the dark side will know.

As for your site, may I suggest some pictures of your farm and info about what you do to help it run. I think something like "Dawn to dusk on an organic farm" would be interesting. You could also include info/pics about your school and your activities.

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Paddy on April 29, 2003, 09:28:00 AM

Peter, apparently Mac keyboards will work on PC's - with a few glitches/things that don't work. I am assuming that your school has newer Dells, with at least Win98 - in which case, from the sounds of it, you may be successful. See this thread at computing.net for more info:

http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/2329.html

Let us know how you make out - I'd try it at home, but my somewhat creaky Win98 PC doesn't have USB.

As for your site - definitely more info about the farm would be great - what you grow, information about organic farming in general, and lots of pictures!

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Peter on April 29, 2003, 05:24:00 PM

Thanks- I'll try the keyboard tommorow

About the website- I upload pictures into Angelfire, but can't figure out what their html addresses are so that I can attach them to the website.

How do I do That?

Thanks a lot
Peter

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Paddy on April 30, 2003, 12:13:00 AM

Peter, I assume that since you have now got some pictures online, you figured out how to post them - the location is as follows: www.angelfire.com/mac2/organicfarmer/picture.jpg , where "picture.jpg" is the name of your picture. (you can see the URL for each photo by right-clicking or control-clicking on the image, which brings up the contextual menu allowing you to open the image in its own window, which yields the URL)

Angelfire has some help pages about uploading and storing images here:

http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/faq/new.../pageseven.html

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Al on April 30, 2003, 02:05:00 AM

Hi Peter,

Not sure about the keyboard thing, but wanted to say that you have a great start on a web site.

One little comment, I would like to know more about your pictures and your farm, what you folks grow, the equipment you use, the whole story basically...  I need more content...        

Keep up the good work.

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: iain on April 30, 2003, 06:54:00 AM

Peter,
More info on organic farming please.

Not quite on the same scale, but I've just gone organic with my gardening this year.    
Got myself a compost bin and organic tomato feed, lawn feed/weed killer.
No more chemicals for me.

Iain

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: ejc on April 30, 2003, 07:54:00 AM

Iain,

In the interest of linguistic accuracy, may I point out that you have unwittingly repeated a common error - to descibe proprietary substances that can be applied to plants simply as "chemicals".

On reflection you would probably agree that "chemicals" also embraces alomost all substances. We ourselves, and plants, (even our Macs) are composed of chemicals.

No offence intended.

My interest lies in trying to reduce the misnomers perpetuated in, among others, the popular pres. In such publications, accompanying an article about air pollution,  you sometimes see a picture of an electricity generating plant's cooling tower as if this were a pollution source. In fact those emissions are merely harmless water vapour. Even the Financial Times has committed tis error.

IMHO, in these days of information overload - and too many people in the media wanting to plant false, or unproven, ideas into our minds, it is important to try to use words correctly.

A sceptic wishes you well.

ejc

Title: eMac Keyboard and Dell?
Post by: Peter on April 30, 2003, 07:31:00 PM

Iain- Organic gardening is great.  My father (Klaas Martens) was in England at the end of January consulting with 13 other US and European organic farmers in Laverstoke.  The racing hero    Jody Shecter (SP?) Assembled them to help him convert his new 2000 acre estate to organic practices.  Good luck, and make sure to stir the compost frequently  and have equal balance of raw organic mater (kitchen scraps) and carbon (leaves, news paper, grass clippings) for excelent compost.

Thanks to everyone else on the advice  
Peter