Aaaargh!

[desperance]

So I plugged my lovely big anti-RSI keyboard back into the machine, freshly rinsed and slowly dried - and the return key still didn't work, after its wining. So I fiddled a little, and tried it again - and it worked! And it worked almost consistently (viz it failed once, in several dozen reiterations), so I put the alternative keyboard away and settled down to do some real work - and the return key failed immediately, and has not worked again.

- And then I was just in the process of typing 'It's the only key on the keyboard that misbehaves', when other strange things started happening - I hit the return key and got a c, I hit the n and got [n, the back-arrow took me a whole word back and then gave me a 7 when it got there. Like that.

So the keyboard goes back to the bathroom for some seriously radical treatment, kill or cure, and I'm stuck with several more days of this OEM little thing, which has become known as 'Ouchie'. Its only major advantage is that being so much smaller, it's much less of an attractive target for Mac to treat, sit, lie or sprawl upon, so my work is less cat-inspired than it has been recently.

Comments

"this OEM little thing, which has become known as 'Ouchie'"

[billbrent.livejournal.com]

No, no, THIS is Ouchie! (http://www.ouchytheclown.com/)

Heh.

[julesjones]

That's ever so much more polite than what I was calling the *thing* I was forced to use for a few hours before going out and buying a new ergonomic when Preciousss refused to play nicely with the new laptop.

I'm using a Microsoft Natural 4000 now. Expensive, but not horribly so, and very comfortable.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That is my own model also, as I can't afford a Maltron (http://www.maltron.com/). Much as I loathe Microsoft and all its works - well, no. All its works bar one. I like this keyboard. Or did, till Mac killed it...

[julesjones]

All its works bar two. I'm using a Natural mouse as well, and have done for years. It's a "prise from my cold dead hands" item for me. Unfortunately they don't make that model any more, and I fear that mine may be finally reaching the end of its natural life.

The software sucks galaxies through a straw, but the hardware is wonderful.