grub's Journal: slurpees_kill_keythingees

I_bought_one_Slurpee_on_the_trip_home.
30_minutes_or_so_previous_to_this_entry_some_spilled_on_my_entry_unit.
Now_I_seem_to_be_short_some_working_keys.

I've_succeeded_in_writing_this_without_using_even_one_of:
tilde_key
the_number_"one"
the_letter_to_the_left_of_"w"
the_letter_to_the_left_of_"s"
the_letter_to_the_left_of_"x"
the_long_thing_which_puts_the_empty-bit_between_words.

I_suck._This_is_poopy.

my keyboard has been acting weird lately

[nxtw]

i can't use shift. it works maybe once out of twenty tries. otherwise, it has unpredictable results. usually i get 3 seemingly random characters. sometimes it matches a key combination, specifically one that opens up windows media player. i have to use caps lock to type a capital letter and have to copy and paste any nonletter.

the problem started a week ago. i fixed the problem for a day or two by cleaning out the keyboard. i took all the keys off and vacuumed. the keyboard is fairly dirty, but there hasn

Re:my keyboard has been acting weird lately

[grub]

I just replaced my now-wonky, aging ergonomic keyboard with a spare plain-Jane unit. No ergo == I make mistakes. Must get an ergo tomorrow!

What OS?

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

If you're in windows (unlikely for you) XP, you can run osk.exe, which gives you an onscreen keyboard.

Re:What OS?

[grub]

Funny, it's on a Linux box but how I found out something was wonky was when I tried to vnc over to my Windows satellite receiver PC. The password was not being accepted. So I started up joe (text editor) and found which keys were dead.

GREAT info re: osk.exe, that's an awesome tip!

Re:What OS?

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Glad to help. I'm pretty suprised at how big a response I just got on that post, but hey, it's great to know that people who can use it know about it now!

Re:What OS?

[m50d]

On linux you can use kcharselect or I think there's a gnome equivalent

How quick WAS the brown fox?

[BandwidthHog]

If you enjoyed the challenge of typing without certain letters, read this book [methuen.co.uk].

Re:How quick WAS the brown fox?

[grub]

Thanks! It's on the way from amazon.ca.

Re:How quick WAS the brown fox?

[BandwidthHog]

I just read his followup to that one a few weeks ago. It’s a Gumpography of a fictional character where the original manuscript was destroyed, so the story is told entirely via the footnotes.

Whoah, dude

[http]

That's about as ugly as my proposed solution quick and dirty temporary solution. Select a space on a page and copy it, then carry on hitting ^V as needed. Ugly, but workable for a while.

My flatmate's laptop numpad function is inverted - `heirophant' comes out as `he5r6-hant', `likewise' comes out as `352ew5se'. Holding down the `Fn' key brings it back to normal. Letting go reverts to garb3ed text. I'm open to sacrificing a year old chicken without blemish (I normally reserve them for despairing SCSI

Re:Whoah, dude

[mekkab]

Wow... that happened to my/my wife's laptop after a late-night bout with java over VPN...

I did the "ARARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!" finger banging and it all got fucked up. So I shut down and rebooted a few times. Don't remember how but it came back out of it.