|
My scroll wheel had stopped working, and once I had eliminated driver problems (even if Win7 thinks it's a MS PS/2 mouse instead of a Logitech USB trackball) there was only one logical source: hardware.
So I just took my mouse apart to see if there was hair in the optical sensors. Oh yes. Half a cat, by the looks of it. Tweezers, tissues, carefully dismantle...
And the sides of the wheel were coated in some kind of yellow gunk, the source of which I don't wish to speculate on, since it's likely to be my hand and that means I'll have to take my keyboard apart and give it a deep clean - which I'd really rather avoid...
All cleaned, all reassembled, all working - but now I'm looking at my keyboard and thinking... 
I'm just off to wash my hands. In bleach.
When was the last time you cleaned your input devices? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: When was the last time you cleaned your input devices?
This morning, in the shower.
Oh, I see what you meant.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
Isn't that your output devices ?
I'd rather be phishing!
|
|
|
|
|
That rather depends.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
Never, they are so cheap these days (the last ones I think got from a box of cornflakes) so its not really worth it.
I will certainly consider changing them weekly now to combat just this issue. 
|
|
|
|
|
Mouse, some months ago ...
Keyboard... never EVER! There is so much Beer, Cola, Chips and stuff in it, i won't dare to clean it. Thank god it's a mechanical one so smashing the keys sever times helped to unglue them after the drink attacks
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
|
|
|
|
|
Beer in keyboard! Do you drink Beer while working? or do you work while drinking Beer? 
|
|
|
|
|
I'd never clean my keyboard or mouse at work, i just take a new one :P
Gittum wrote: Do you drink Beer while working? or do you work while drinking Beer?
At home, both
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
|
|
|
|
|
I thought you were proper!
Tradition dictates you should never, ever, clean your keyboard. Stop being soft.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
|
|
|
|
|
And why would you share this with us?! It's almost lunch time here and now I feel an urge to vomit... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Well so do I! That was the whole point!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
yesterday! I had a second BSOD in as many days from what I suspected to be overheating. (It was bloody hot last week).
I took my desktop from under my desk only to be greated by flakes of dust the size of my sweater. They were blocking the rasters. Took it outside and cleaned it out a little risking a severe case of pneumoconiosis[^].
Anyway, I'm hoping the machine will refrain in throwing BSOD's at me. 
modified 9-Jul-15 1:55am.
|
|
|
|
|
Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
|
|
|
|
|
link fixed ...
sorry about that.
|
|
|
|
|
I remember some 30 years ago, taking all the keys off the keyboard to clean it and then looking at this nice jumble of keys, the locations* for which I just wasn't sure.
* It was my first job, the main QWERTY set was easy, it was dozens of extra keys you used to get on terminals that had me flummoxed.
veni bibi saltavi
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, I've done that as well!
Ended up nicking someone else's keyboard while they were at lunch to use as a pattern... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
long time ago, I asked a previous colleague of mine how his weekend was and he said : "busy".
He wanted to clean his keyboard and took out all the keys, but was smart enough to order them neatly on his desk. And then the cat jump on his desk ... 
|
|
|
|
|
I was just thinking of getting a new keyboard at work. Mine has a sticky shift key and they are so cheap.
Love me trackball but I can only get the wireless one in the model I like. I clean it about once a week.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
|
|
|
|
|
Corporal Agarn wrote: I clean it about once a week.
Inside, or just under the ball?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: When was the last time you cleaned your input devices?
I cleaned my input device last night before bed. You had to ask.
|
|
|
|
|
Intro[^]
The rest of the show was 2 hours of non-stop hits.
Excellent show. (which was last Monday)
more here.[^]
and here[^]
modified 8-Jul-15 5:00am.
|
|
|
|
|
They still rock
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
|
|
|
|
|
Another utterly baffling example of the modern trend to stump up cash to see someone live and then watch the whole thing on a phone screen. I despair!!!
|
|
|
|
|
it was not my phone, I left mine at home and enjoyed the whole thing straight 
|
|
|
|
|
Movie Quote Of The Day
That's what I like... Graboids. That's it, Graboids!
Which movie?
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
