Today I've cleaned my keyboard (as it wasn't working well anymore )
It's a five years old keyboard, and I don't think it was ever opened before..
As soon as I started getting the buttons out, tons of dirt begun flowing
Damn, after completelly dissambling it, I could've sworn that my keyboard is the place where the elephants go to die

In two hours worth of brushing and washing, I finished cleaning it. Now it looks like a new one.

What have you done today ?

I used to clean my keyboard, but then, about 5 years ago, i relaised that I could buy a shiney new one for less than £5.00.

No need to buy a new one. This one is completelly functional again.
... And it looks good

And it's a relatively modern keyboard, PS2, and I even have those useless windows buttons

No way!, Fairplay on recycling but non-standard keys/generic keyboards really upset me. Especially the ones with cheap plastic volume controls and IE launch buttons. They remind of when I view a web page that says "Best viewed in..." at the bottom of the page.

Edited by fretz at 02:15 on June, 27th 2003

Well, generic or not, all today's sold keyboard are like that. I even saw keyboards with multimedia buttons like Play/Pause/FF/Rew...

I hate all that play/stop button rigmarall. I have a nice pointer thingy which I control with my mouse to press buttons like 'play' and 'f-fwd'.

Ive got a 6-7 year old compaq 105 key thing, probably made by some lame mfg with a compaq sticker applied, and i'll make use of it for as long as possible, the main reason being I can avoid all those pointless volume, f-fwd, and app launch buttons on keyboards. gggrrrrrrr.

If I have the chance to replace it with a normal keyboard I probably will at some point, but if it means buying a gay thing with ejector-seat buttons i'll do without.

Edited by fretz at 02:28 on June, 27th 2003

You said "nice pointer thingy"

Yes , indeed, it's unfair as all this crap obviously works only under windoze TM

Edit: But I have to admit that I like keyboards with shut down/stand by buttons, if they would function without drivers. I 'm to lazy to do anything more complicated than that ( pushing one button )

Edited by Dexterus at 02:32 on June, 27th 2003

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Everyone should have a nice pointer thingy

This Dexterus is my all-time biggest hate of home computers - 'intelligent' power buttons. Some people dont seem to grasp what i'm getting at when i mention this, but I want an on-off button that I control on my PC and monitor. I dont want a lame lump of plastic with an LED on it that has a mind of its own. I want control of it.

Edited by fretz at 02:42 on June, 27th 2003

Yes, too bad we, with our aging menthality , have been outrunned by modern times.
Soon computers will start talking and they'll never wanna shut down anymore

Sometimes, when my computer frezees for whatever there happens (usualy during windoze shutdown ), sooner than waiting 4 seconds (with my hand on a button) I pull the power cable out of it

That can't be any good...

What , talking computers or pulling the power cable out ?

Well today I have been busy putting up decorations and setting up Dj stuff, fore it is my birthday party tonight, and whereupon I turn 18 on Monday I reach legal drinking age
Many a fun time will be had tonight

Today I'm gonna celebrate the end of my exams big time...

On the topic of keyboards, I got a Microsoft wireless multimedia-keyboard for my last birthday from my brother and sister and I have to admit, it seems to be the first product I own from microsoft which actually does what it is supposed to. Of course I quickly reassigned all those MS-buttons so that the one saying web opens mozilla, the one for my mail doesn't do anything because I don't use a seperate mail-client, the one that used to start windows media player now starts winamp 2.81, etc... That's basicly the only reason I like it, 'cause I can easily reassign any key to whatever function I desire... If only I could get the dang MS-logo off it...

I have a keyboard which came with my first (and only) PC, I've never cleaned it, I've never counted the keys and I've never used any keys with strange signs I can't make sense of on it. Then, I have another keyboard sitting on top of the CPU which has largely identical keys and a very similar function: typing text.

Well, after my mb and cooling was fried a while ago, I nolonger could use my old keyboard seeing as there as no way to connect it to my new mb so I used one I found in my attic for while but it had a distinct disadvantage: half the buttons didn't work at all so seeing as it was my bithday coming up, I asked for a new one...

Pulling the plug on the computer. The really can't be too good for it.

I really need to clean my keyboard, by my minivac was destroyed when the batteries leaked inside of it.

If I cleaned my keyboard, Greenpeace would probably protest to stop me killing off an entire eco-system.

Tuss, why is that ? It's not like the power cable is soldered into the computer... I have a standard conector there, I can pull it out and insert it back in. works like a charm every time

For everyone else: All you people, I wish I had a digitall camera to take a picture of my keyboard, so you all can see how good it looks. Maybe so you'll clean yours

Edit: ok, maybe yours aren't as dirty as mine was. Years of spilled over coffee and cigarette ash were really getting to it

Edited by Dexterus at 02:42 on June, 28th 2003

Dexterus, pulling the plug isn't the same as pressing the on/off switch, the electric sparks that are a result of pulling out the cable are dangerous for your computer. It can work a thousand times, but one time it just may go horribly wrong.

It's the same with the antistatic strip you are supposed to wear when inserting electronic parts in a computer (memory, ...) 99% of the time all goes well and the computer doesn't complain, its just that 1% that most of us never experience that worries me .

Edited by Breaker at 11:48 on June, 29th 2003