Simple Answer
Use Right-ALT + 3 to type a # on Linux using a UK Apple Mac Keyboard.
The Slightly Longer Answer
The UK Apple keyboard layout does not have a Hash (#) key on it, and in mac it is typed by pressing ALT+3.
This didn’t appear to work in Xubuntu, until I ended up mashing the keyboard with anger and found out that you need to use the right alt key, then it works.
No, it’s not that interesting, but if someone is as silly as me, and googling for an answer, I hope they find this 
Ian and I were walking along lawrence street, and had got half way across James Street, when a black car with a load of equipment on the top of it turned out of James Street towards town. We then spotted a small Google Maps logo on the side of the car, and promptly began to […]
Yep it was me.
Instead of going all the way down to London to do it though, I stayed in York. Having seen no queue at about 1am there, I decided I may as well get some sleep beforehand.
So I returned at 6:30am to find a queue of 19 people. I was #20!
3 and a half […]
This is my solution to the following error that i kept getting when trying to compile Visual C Sharp code in Visual Studio Express 2008. I thought I’d post what I did to make it work, seeing as I couldn’t find owt on t’internet, and there were quite a few people with this problem it […]
Guitar hero is indeed fun. But it’s nothing like a guitar.
This supposedly is:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/09/guitar-wizard-coming-for-mac/
It looks like guitar hero with a midi guitar i think.
I had lots of trouble trying to use isightcapture in leopard (well, it didn’t work at all) and kept getting the error message:
FATAL: setting data channel failed - cam busy/not connected ?
after a lot of googling, I found that it hasn’t worked for versions of OS X since 10.4.11
I decided just to poke around in […]
Due to me not being able to find a sufficient way of attaching a poppy to my clothing last year without ‘pinning’ myself (and it being there in such a way that it stayed on), I thought I’d show my support for the poppy appeal by putting a poppy on my facebook profile as well […]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6954002.stm
so the BBC seem to think that 3 singles got to no. 11 this week….?
so i have been trying for about an hour to set up a new php includes directory, on my webserver which runs plesk, and for future reference i thought id stick it here too.
php.ini is at /etc/php/ini
the new directory i added was at /php/includes/
the stuff i had to put in my vhosts.conf file to get […]
If any of you are interested in programming your own facebook apps, there’s a tutorial thingy here that i found much more helpful than anything facebook themselves have to offer.
http://20bits.com/2007/06/04/an-introduction-to-fbml/