Keyboard problem, my Insert key is mix with my Delete key. How to disable overwrite text mode?

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Published on 2011-03-19T08:09:21Z Indexed on 2011/03/19 8:12 UTC
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I have a problem, everytime i type a text, it is overwriting what i have typed. i assume that the mode is set to overwriting,

I want to insert the text not overwrite it, but i can't disable it because my insert key is mix up with my delete key so everytime i enter insert to disable the overwrite mode, it just delete what i type.

so how to disable this? it's getting very annoying..

i'm using centOS.. and it seems that my problem is only related to netbeans because when i type here, it is set to insert mode.. but in netbeans, it just overwrites the codes! help!

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