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Oh dear.
I don't think I should be allowed to work with computers anymore.
they wind me up too much.
Afraid my last MS bent keyboard has just met its maker (silicon heaven, not his Billness) via me, anger, and a hammer.

My Win2K machine got its knickers in a twist and decided that it had a mysterious "shift lock", with all letter keys giving upper case (regardless of state of caps lock). and number & punctuation keys stuck giving their shifted state. Try mysterious combination of right control / shift / alt keys which seemed to cure it last time it went this cretenous. No cure this time. still shifted. oh, hang on, now the screens gone to the "locked, please enter password" screen. Oh dear. How can I enter the password when the keys arent doing what they should be doing. I know, I'll use this handy hammer to enter my password. That'll teach the fucker a lesson.

Am currently typing on an old HP "straight" keyboard. Yuk, it's horrible! Have put the hammer away safely somewhere.

Pity I'm not employed anywhere where they couldsend me on an anger management course. Simple, anger management == don't use a bloody computer.

Sigh. have to go buy some more bent keyboards now. Then do a fresh Win2Kpro install for my main PC I think as something somewhere somhow on this (1+yr old) install is a bit screwy keyboardwise...

Beermat the Bezerker

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> Beermat the Bezerker
we sould team you up with broback the barbarian :p

people that work with computer *NEED* anger management more
that anyone :)

I think free anger management for computer people :)

woooooosaaaaaa (* if you haven't seen bad boys 2 you won't get it)

I need a new career; are tehre many openings for Bezerkers?
What's the pay like? Do I get to go on viking raids and visit hy-brasil like Erik the Viking?

Oh... mine does that, sometimes...

[contemplates hammer]

I don'tt hink it would work at all if i did that...

Oh, wait: it doesn't anyway!

I've had one go at trying to find what key sequence or whatever it is that I do that triggers shift lock. found nothing on google, nothing on Cix (which usually gives a good response for most things). So it can't be happening and I'm inventing it all. Good oh!

"Afraid my last MS bent keyboard has just met its maker (silicon heaven, not his Billness) via me, anger, and a hammer."

BTDTGTTS - my first bent keyboard given to me as a gift from a former employer when I visited their office in SF met its maker in a similar way, except it was just me pounding in it with my full anger rather than use of a hammer that did for it. I replaced it with another though, sad person that I am... all other keyboards are stright though (seems really odd to use that word somehow!!)

it does seem mighty weird going from bent to straight, my fingers keep hitting all the wrong places...

What's sad about liking the bent keyboards? They make my wrists hurt far less than the straight ones. I used my first one visiting anoffice in LA in 1996, and been using them ever since (had to import my first couple from said office as they weren't available in the UK then)

Mine came from our office in SF in January 96! I was over there for a party (ahuh!) and wandered into the offices of some people that I otherwise worked for sortof (virtual company with people worldwide but had a small office room on Mission in SF) and they had been given half a dozen by MS for free but only had Apples in the office. Had to dump the box of it and carry it around the USA with me for the following few weeks but was really nice to use. Annoyingly the replacement one is not quite the same angle between the two sections and not so nice to use therefore.

Ah, I was a couple of months later, March '96 in Irvine at Phoenix offices in LA for BIOS stuff.
Saw & used the bent keyboard in a colleagues cube there, he wouldn't let me take it away with me (surprise, eh :) so had to get some shipped over after a couple of weeks when the lab had finished testing them against BIOS builds...

Been there, done that, turned to ebay for a replacement using just the mouse and Character Map...

how do you get the character map up when all you can see is the "compiuter locked, enter password" screen?

PS : you're a masochist :))

I believe it's an officially recognised sport in the Ukraine. And rightly so.

In the Deathbed Vigil , where many keyboards get to meet hammers, it's portrayed as some kind of strange rite. It looked a lot of fun too, given every key has a spring...

ohhh, interesting looking DVD!

Why were C= kjeyboards being hammered to death?

ohhh, interesting looking DVD!

Quite famous in Amiga-land, but it's a very DIY video, (made by one techie guy, his video-camera and his Amigas), and so a view at your own risk kind of thing. My favourite part was seeing the names of Commodore's top execs being written on the speedbumps in the Commodore car-park. :)

You can also get the video as an MPEG with the Amiga emulator Amiga Forever,

Why were C= kjeyboards being hammered to death?

For fun, mainly, I think. I doubt they were very good and working keyboards.

Have used & liked WinUAE,
I think if Ican get the cash together I may have to buy Amiga Forever. Now, if only I can find my Amiga HDD backups with the games (marble madness! yay), C compiler, GeFICs software & all the cool things I used to do with the Amiga 15 years ago.
Have an A1500 here (thanks

aperrott) with a HDD and a catweasel card, used it last to play Pinball Dreams :)

I've not got an Amiga emu on my PC yet, but will get around to it eventually. This is being written on a real Amiga, which is still my primary machine till I force myself to write a mailer. (In REBOL, which will handle all the hard work.) My aim is to get away from being dependant on any particular OS. It's a nice dream, anyway...

It is difficult to not get used to and comfortable with an OS,
I guess one could have an alarm and very 6 months, reinstall ones PC using a differnt OS. Or put the PC to one side and use... something else (I have a VAX spare if anyone wants to try VMS or Ultrix :)

With MS, this is often quite automatic with OSs shooting themselves in the head & requiring a reinstall.

Must emigrate to the Ukraine!
all that lovley chrenobyl fallout must do wonders for the RSI...