quiet for a while

Mar 30, 2015 12:41

drowned my keyboard. computer fellow ordering one but in the meantime using onscreen accessibility keyboard which is slow and annoying. 

computer crisis

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ritaxis March 31 2015, 00:00:10 UTC
really banal--my hand failed when I was getting a glass of water. It does that some times. I need to walk around things, just i case, but I failed this time.

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ritaxis March 31 2015, 15:36:18 UTC
The computer is not toast, but neither is it unscathed: the keyboard needs replacing and it has developed a new propensity for claiming that there's been a power surge on a hub port, which it never used to think about before. I've looked up this behavior: apparently it is a common and benign one, though it is annoying. I just have to repeatedly reset the hub ports and go on with my business.

I called my guy and he has already ordered a new keyboard. Apparently there was exactly one he could easily find for my model of laptop (Alienware 14).

Currently I am using an old (not even USB) keybpard attached with a converter, and a mouse, which is a lot of wires and balancing, but it is less slow than picking out the letters on the onscreen keyboard application, which itself was better than nothing.

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ritaxis April 1 2015, 01:27:38 UTC
I had been using my ancient keyboard but I think it gave up the ghost this afternoon.

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