[SATLUG] OS X help

[Eli]

Brad Knowles wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Jeremy Mann wrote:
>
>>  I feel silly for asking this, but I got a 10.4.8 PPC Mac without a
>>  Apple USB keyboard. Somebody spilled coffee on the Apple keyboard and
>>  now I got a Dell keyboard.
>
> For the most part, that should work just fine.  When the Mac Mini came 
> out, Apple advertised that you would need to BYOKMM (Bring Your Own 
> Keyboard, Mouse, & Monitor), with the assumption that many of those 
> were from a Windows environment.  The same keyboards, monitors, and 
> mice should also work equally well on other modern Macs.
>
> The keys might be mapped a bit strangely on the keyboard, however. 
> Just today, I saw an article on TUAW that might help -- see 
> <http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/13/mac-101-change-keyboard-modifier-keys-with-a-windows-keyboard/>, 
> a.k.a., <http://tinyurl.com/yojmvt>.
>
Mac OS key mapper, useful for non-apple keyboards.  
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

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