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I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business divi

I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.

peatmoss 9y ago
https has ruined everything :-)
reaperducer 9y ago
There was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down. Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation. (A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)
- zaat 9y ago
  Who would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed? Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really. Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005491/graphics-drivers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
  - Noumenon72 9y ago
    I thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
    - zaat 9y ago
      The problem is not that the feature exist, it's that is set as default with key combos that are the standard way for selecting text, one of the most common use cases of the computer keyboard, afaik.
      - shakna 9y ago
        Ctrl alt for selecting text? I know of shift and command, emacs and vi don't require you hold down any key. What system uses ctrl+alt?
- egypturnash 9y ago
  Karateka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA

I might have done this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html to an entire business division for a while. Might have.

peatmoss 9y ago

https has ruined everything :-)

reaperducer 9y ago

There was an Apple ][ game that did something similar. I think it might have been King's Quest. In the era when people used hole punchers to make flippy disks, if you accidentally put the game disk in your machine upside down, the game displayed upside down. Today you can make any Mac's display turn upside down with a few clicks in System Preferences. Someone in my office may or may not make this happen on machines that haven't been properly logged out when someone goes on vacation. (A quick Command-Option-8 is also good for some fun.)

zaat 9y ago
Who would have thought on putting the simple and prevailing combo Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow as a default hotkey for this? And in a program you didn't even intentionally installed? Stupid Intel driver programmers, thanks for nothing, really. Still wondering if this came to life as an internal joke. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005491/graphics-drivers.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
- Noumenon72 9y ago
  I thought that at first, but it is very handy when I take my laptop between normal monitor and vertical monitor.
  - zaat 9y ago
    The problem is not that the feature exist, it's that is set as default with key combos that are the standard way for selecting text, one of the most common use cases of the computer keyboard, afaik.
    - shakna 9y ago
      Ctrl alt for selecting text? I know of shift and command, emacs and vi don't require you hold down any key. What system uses ctrl+alt?
egypturnash 9y ago
Karateka. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqSHLjiJCA