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What Does Your Escape Key Do?
Yeah, CSI: NY has some pretty unrealistic parts to it. But I still watch it some.
But the latest episode features Second Life. The evil villain tries to download some virus into the crime lab, and the computer savvy young guy saves the day. How?
He shuts down the ENTIRE SYSTEM by pressing the ESCAPE KEY:
Can your escape key do that? Only if you’re in CSI.
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October 27th, 2007
It seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to map it, but I wouldn’t want to for fear of accidently pressing it.
October 27th, 2007
My escape key teleports me (like the toaster in the simpsons that Homer sticks his hand into) to an alternate cyber reality in which I’m looking at a blue screen, typing blue words,… it’s quite magical…
Sorry ‘esc’ doesn’t do much for me!
Kenneth
October 29th, 2007
My escape key IS pretty powerful. I have a mac and it’s designed such that the escape key pretty much gets me out of anything. My F7 key shuts down all power in Chicago.
Nice blog, by the way. I really enjoy reading it.
October 30th, 2007
This is nothing new for the entertainment industry. It’s like all of those action movies that try to throw some technology in.
“I’ve got to hack the internets in 5 minutes or our database hotkey will be compromised!”
Don’t they have anyone working for them who is even somewhat familiar with computers?
October 30th, 2007
I never thought this post would’ve spurred such great comments! More than anything, I wanted to poke a little fun at Hollywood. Thanks for your great responses!
October 30th, 2007
my ESC key makes me turn off the TV
November 5th, 2007
lol, my escape key freezes up my computer followed by raging Ctrl Alt Deletes and finally a manual shutdown 😉
October 11th, 2008
I set my esc key to make my system stand-by, its not actually that hard to change your keyboard…what u shud try and do is make a batch file that when ran on one of your freinds pc’s will mess up the keyboard, but i have no idea if thats even possible.
October 13th, 2008
@Zte – You have a devious mind. 🙂
August 31st, 2009
my esacpe key does nothing and it aggrivates me.