http://www.google.com/chrome

It’s soooo fast!

Really impressing. Browsing feels fun again, especially with heavy javascript pages.

What evil things Google plans to do with this browser remains to be seen…

When I ask you (assuming you are an IT guy, I don’t think other people will find their way here) when you used caps lock the last time you will probably answer never. Anyway, I’m sure you did, though without noticing it aND IT WAS JUST A BIT ANNOying @*#!^.

Because I use the ctrl key in my favorite editor all the time (not to copy/paste code ;) ) and it is in such an unnatural position there are days my hand start to hurt me or feel cramping because of the crippled position I force it into for hours. Then I usually have to stop typing (”Oh no!”) and wait a few hours until I can continue again.

However, its possible to map the caps lock key to the ctrl key. Here is how:

Linux

Load

keycode 0x42 = Escape

into your xmodmap

Mac

Tiger
In Keyboard & Mouse settings, Keyboard, Modifier Keys… choose ^ ctrl for caps lock

Panther
I don’t have panther installed but maybe fKeys works for you.

Windows

Create a file called mapper.reg and paste

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

in. Then double click, import it to your registry and reboot. (You may want to backup the existing value first)

If you commute in those new trains, you may have noticed their new and shiny system which shows you in which village you are and when you will arrive in the next station.

However, since the clock change 18 days ago, it just doesnt work anymore: Sometimes it displays three different times on the same screen, the ‘next stop’ field is wrong or the driver just turned it off and announce the stations by his own.

We all create software and know how hard it is to keep those little things in mind which could make our software fail. I was not very surprised when I saw it the first time, but that was almost one and a half years ago!

I wonder what those guys at sbb are doing (maybe they outsourced it to Swisscom IT Services (they grow by buying other companies and fail when they have to deliver on time because it’s all mixed up)) There was a bug a long time ago, its easy reproduceable and it’s around until today.

Still, it’s a wonderful example for the type of dev who just press ‘run’ in his editor to see if his program is okay and then hope he did enough testing.