Originally posted on my old blog.

I finally switched to Linux. I installed Fedora Core 2 last Friday night and I loaded all of my music, family photos, and other important documents onto Fedora by Sunday. I am using an 80gb hard drive which is sufficient for now even though I had almost a completely full 120gb one for Windows. The games and programs for Linux tend to take up less space and I don’t need as many of them.

I have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia keyboard. It is a nice keyboard besides the fact that it has an “F Lock” key that has to be pressed “on” before the function keys (F1 - F12) can be used. I used to use a Windows registry hack that fixed this by changing all of the keycodes of the new and useless functions of the F keys (like print, reply, save) to act as if they were the normal F keys. Now that I am using Linux I had to get used to pressing that dumb “F Lock” key again. I got sick of it so I made a shell script that fixes the problem. The script is available and licensed under the GPL. The script is: f_lock_fix