On the Mac itself, I have remapped the caps lock key (does anybody actually use that thing these days?) to Command (that’s the key with the weird symbol… ah well, one of the keys with weird symbols <g>) . I had always done the same thing on Windows, where it required registry changes, so I was positively surprised to find that on the Mac it’s just a system preferences option… Microsoft, here’s how you do that kind of thing:

Now, while I’ve found it useful on the Mac to have the Command key easily accessible (although Ctrl is still used in too many places, like terminals and things… gotta find a solution to that), that key is recognized as a Windows key in VMWare. So I changed one of the registry trickery files so that the Windows keys get remapped to Ctrl for use in Windows. Works like a charm. Here’s what the content of that .reg file looks like:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,5B,E0,1d,00,5C,E0,00,00,00,00

Hope it helps somebody!

Would you believe it, I got a MacBook recently. It’s fantastic, there’s no other way to describe it. OS X is amazing, Windows apps seem to run faster in VMWare Fusion than they do on native Windows, and the applications are just… well, can’t find any more superlatives. Holy cow!

I’ll certainly post more about this in the future. I’m not planning on abandoning Windows, or .NET, or anything like that - on the contrary, I want to see what other platforms have to offer these days, be it for competition or compatibility. Mono is supposed to be able to run most Windows Forms apps these days, I hear… now I only need some time

If you haven’t had a look at the Mac since they started building Intel based machines, go do so as soon as you can. You are really missing out.