Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night, sitting
on the desktop..one called
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night,
sitting on the desktop..one called
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

Sounds a bit like when my nephew dialled 999 on redial when he was a
babbie

except the police were not amused


--
geoff

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:33:07 +0100, geoff wrote:

In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night, sitting
on the desktop..one called
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case
again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

Sounds a bit like when my nephew dialled 999 on redial when he was a
babbie

except the police were not amused

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided walkway at
the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

--
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

*lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided walkway at
the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years.
Must get the pressure washer out.

In message , Grimly
Curmudgeon writes
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided walkway at
the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years.
Must get the pressure washer out.

I'll send you mine to clean while you're at it ..


--
geoff

geoff wrote:
In message , Grimly
Curmudgeon writes
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided
walkway at the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years.
Must get the pressure washer out.

I'll send you mine to clean while you're at it ..


Is it as bad as this one?

http://s428.photobucket.com/albums/q...2020/Keyboard/

--
Adam

In message , Grimly
Curmudgeon writes
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years.
Must get the pressure washer out.

Chuck it in the dishwasher, followed by a few days in the airing
cupboard. Sorted.
--
Graeme

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:19:48 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

I still use IBM Model M keyboards. The cats use the provided walkway at
the back of the keyboard...

http://www.dansdata.com/images/clicky/ballboard1024.jpg

I've not seen a clean one of those for years. Must get the pressure
washer out.

Mine's due a clean, too. Never had cats on it, but one of the dogs often
jumps up into my lap and then flops his head down onto it. Thankfully I
suspect that IBM engineers forsaw that, and dog skull impacts formed part
of the original product testing :-)

I think I got my PS/2-USB convertor from clickykeyboards.com. I do have
a PS/2 socket on the PC, but every so often the keyboard would stop
responding when plugged into it; I wonder if it's a current-draw issue.
No problems via the USB widget, though.

cheers

Jules

Jules Richardson wrote:

I think I got my PS/2-USB convertor from clickykeyboards.com. I do have
a PS/2 socket on the PC, but every so often the keyboard would stop
responding when plugged into it; I wonder if it's a current-draw issue.

Model M takes about 112mA (supposedly 100x more current than a modern
PS/2 keyboard), the PS/2 port should be willing to provide up to 275mA,
but I gather some modern machines are unwilling ...

No problems via the USB widget, though.

I must grab one ...

In message , geoff
writes
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night,
sitting on the desktop..one called
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

Sounds a bit like when my nephew dialled 999 on redial when he was a
babbie

except the police were not amused

Some years ago, before broadband was common, my company laptop had a
Remote Access System using a dial-up modem. All I had to do was click a
button and hey-presto, I was connected to the company servers.

One day, I got a phone call from the local emergency services asking me
to stop dialling 999 or face severe penalties. I explained that I was
not calling them at all but they were insistent. It turned out that the
RAS client was American and the default telephone number, used when the
pre-programmed number was unreachable, was 999!

Our tech guys had never realised this and I got a mention in dispatches
for bringing this to their attention. They never did anything about the
problem though!
--
Peter

On 12 Sep, 11:46, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night, sitting
on the desktop..one called
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

Our cat likes sitting on the nice warm laptop keyboard. It once
managed to press some combination of keys which makes the display go
upside down and back-to-front. Why in god's name Microsoft ever put
such a combination of keys into Windows I have no idea, but it was
real bugger to sort out - had to try googling for the issue with a
mouse in mirror image, very confusing.

"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
...


Our cat likes sitting on the nice warm laptop keyboard. It once
managed to press some combination of keys which makes the display go
upside down and back-to-front. Why in god's name Microsoft ever put
such a combination of keys into Windows I have no idea,


That would be to work on tablet PCs like this one I am using.
However it has a button that rotates the display so i don't use the short
cuts.

Martin Pentreath wrote:

Our cat likes sitting on the nice warm laptop keyboard. It once
managed to press some combination of keys which makes the display go
upside down and back-to-front. Why in god's name Microsoft ever put
such a combination of keys into Windows I have no idea,

Because of video projectors...

In message
,
Martin Pentreath writes
On 12 Sep, 11:46, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
Hmm. Searching for an explanation of sitting down at the compuiter and
finding two screenshots of where I left the computer last night, sitting
on the desktop..one called
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000.png

leads me to believe that the blasted kittens, have been on te case again.

Well at least they haven't peed in the laser printer. This time.

Our cat likes sitting on the nice warm laptop keyboard. It once
managed to press some combination of keys which makes the display go
upside down and back-to-front. Why in god's name Microsoft ever put
such a combination of keys into Windows I have no idea, but it was
real bugger to sort out - had to try googling for the issue with a
mouse in mirror image, very confusing.
Not MS, the company that wrote the drivers for your video card.
--
Clint Sharp