A keyboard cleaning meme spread around the office today, for some reason. And I fell for it.
So, just like everyone else, I liberally sprayed my keyboard with Foamclene, and scrubbed away at the case and keyboard.
Unlike everyone else, though, my keyboard hasn't worked since. Sigh. Serves me right, I suppose, for having a bloody Microsoft keyboard.
One of the keys is 'stuck down', not physically, but electronically. I have no idea which key it is. I've taken the bloody thing to pieces, and pulled all the keys off. Following Dan's advice, I've sprayed the thing with WD-40, too, but that just made everything oily. And there was me thinking that WD-40 or duct tape will fix anything. (It made us all pretty high, though.)
One other substance was tried - blood. I managed to gash my finger pulling the keys off. But this offering didn't help either.
Don't try this at home, folks.
Posted to Apropos of nothing by Simon Brunning at August 20, 2003 12:34 PMhttp://online.nmit.vic.edu.au/police/hardware/resource19.htm
Posted by: El Presidente on August 20, 2003 12:47 PMSorry, could you explain how you managed to cut your finger on a keyboard. It's not like you're a stranger to a keyboard, you do use them quite often.
And it's not Microsoft's fault, you don't hear of the "sharp keyboard of death" very often do you?
Posted by: Stevan Rose on August 20, 2003 03:09 PMBTW, El Presidente is a very wise man, he obviously knows his hardware.
:-)
Posted by: Stevan Rose on August 20, 2003 03:19 PMwhen I used your keyboard on Friday, I was thinking it could do with a clean! What have you done to notepad?
Posted by: Mark Boyce on August 20, 2003 04:16 PMReal Men don't use Notepad. I'm a jEdit man, myself.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on August 20, 2003 04:25 PMReal men flip there own bit switches, none of this peripheral rubbish.
As for jEdit, thats for girls. Give me Vim or give me death. Well, maybe not death, perhaps a sharp headache?
Posted by: Andy Todd on August 20, 2003 07:31 PMNo, it serves you right for spraying the foam IN your keyboard. You're meant to spray it on the cloth, not the keyboard. Otherwise it gets in under things and, pretty unsurprisingly really, gunges them up somewhat.
I'll bring you some (of Bill's!) switch cleaner, if I remember. That ought to sort it out...
Cheers
Tracey