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beermatOh 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
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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Date: 2003-10-10 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-11 02:05 am (UTC)Why were C= kjeyboards being hammered to death?
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Date: 2003-10-11 02:35 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2003-10-11 03:19 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2003-10-11 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-11 04:06 am (UTC)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.