Those conductive rubber Commodore keyboards are a pain to clean. I had to clean the 128 keyboard every year. I had to desolder two keyswitches, remove far too many tiny screws, and then use alcohol and q-tips to clean both the rubber pads on the underside of the keys, as well as the conductive traces on the keyboard pc board.
I salute your ingenuity and enterprise in fixing the C64 before the parents got home.
Every few years, I pull the keycaps, and the plastic top and bottom, and soak them for a few hours in hot water with a hefty dollop of Spic and Span. Brownian Motion is your friend.
As for the keyboard pc, it's mainly a case of using the vacuum cleaner to suck all the loose crud from all the nooks and crannies. The keyswitches are pretty well sealed. They have yet to show any type of failure.
After the plastic bits in the bucket have been rinsed off and dried, the key cabs are replaced and the top and bottom are screwed back into place and that's it for another few years.
Apple Extended Keyboard. 20+ years old and never a problem.
Which is why I spent US$40.00 for the Griffin iMate adaptor, so that I could continue to use the Extended on my 1.42 Ghz Dual Processor MDD Macintosh. After using the Extended, using any other keyboard (save for the IBM Model M) feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty.
Tell me about it. My father was an organizer for the United Mine Workers, District 50, a catch-all for workers not represented by other unions. Everything from people working in nuclear plants to those working in fish processing plants.
You are perfectly free to market your own t-shirt, produced in a non-sweatshop environment, by unionized employees, with full benefits, and profits all going to EFF or other suitable organizations.
That is, of you have the time, what with all your anti-DRM/RIAA/MPAA activities.
The 45 is the daily use calculator. There are few things in this world that approach perfection. The HP-35 and the HP-45 are among those few things.
Sure, I could use PCalc on the Macintosh. I've got the free version that came with a set of OS install disks. It's a damn fine application.
However, the HP-45 is right by the keyboard. And I can operate it with my left hand and enter the results into the Mac via the keyboard keypad with my right.
And it's faster than invoking and using PCalc, too.
Who gets my HPs is in my will. I honestly expect both calculators to outlive me. And I'm only 57.
(Still looking for the hard leather belt holster for the 45 to go along with the hard leather belt holster for my Pickett slide rule.
It's a Slinky, made from lumpy bits of calcium, interspersed with disks of Play-Doh covered in Saran Wrap. All held together by bits of string made of meat.
"You've got to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
It's just so easy. And so simple. I don't know why everyone doesn't run Linux."
I can say for certainty that MS has, for decades, shipped an OS that was wide open to being easily exploited, via OS holes and two applications that begged to be used as vectors for virii, worms and trojans.
However, compared to the tens of thousands of 0wned Windows boxes, 0wned Linux boxes are what, a fraction of a percent of the Windows zombies?
And you weer able to fix it. Try fixing a zombiefied Windows machine, short of pulling the infected drive and replacing it with a fresh, virgin drive.
Which will be 0wned after 30 minutes connected to the Net, due to the POS that is Windows, coupled with the ignorance of the bog-standard Windows luser.
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...that it's Windows machines that get 0wned.
Don't use Windows, don't get 0wned.
Those conductive rubber Commodore keyboards are a pain to clean. I had to clean the 128 keyboard every year. I had to desolder two keyswitches, remove far too many tiny screws, and then use alcohol and q-tips to clean both the rubber pads on the underside of the keys, as well as the conductive traces on the keyboard pc board.
I salute your ingenuity and enterprise in fixing the C64 before the parents got home.
Well Done, sir. Well Done!
Best. Apple. Keyboard. EVER! by the way.
Every few years, I pull the keycaps, and the plastic top and bottom, and soak them for a few hours in hot water with a hefty dollop of Spic and Span. Brownian Motion is your friend.
As for the keyboard pc, it's mainly a case of using the vacuum cleaner to suck all the loose crud from all the nooks and crannies. The keyswitches are pretty well sealed. They have yet to show any type of failure.
After the plastic bits in the bucket have been rinsed off and dried, the key cabs are replaced and the top and bottom are screwed back into place and that's it for another few years.
Apple Extended Keyboard. 20+ years old and never a problem.
Which is why I spent US$40.00 for the Griffin iMate adaptor, so that I could continue to use the Extended on my 1.42 Ghz Dual Processor MDD Macintosh. After using the Extended, using any other keyboard (save for the IBM Model M) feels like I'm poking at a slab of Silly Putty.
Best. Apple. Keyboard. EVER!
...is now so strong and so widespread, that Apple hasn't actually manufactured any hardware for almost 3 years.
You just think you have a Mac Pro or a Mac Book or an iPod.
Indeed, you even think you're watching the "Hello, I'm a Mac" commercials. Nope. It's just the Hypnotoad, reenforcing the Jobsian Collective Illusion.
Tell me about it. My father was an organizer for the United Mine Workers, District 50, a catch-all for workers not represented by other unions. Everything from people working in nuclear plants to those working in fish processing plants.
You are perfectly free to market your own t-shirt, produced in a non-sweatshop environment, by unionized employees, with full benefits, and profits all going to EFF or other suitable organizations.
That is, of you have the time, what with all your anti-DRM/RIAA/MPAA activities.
So isdnip sez:
"When I'm in Boston neighborhoods looking for WiFi, I've never seen it, though I've never had trouble finding an open Netgear or Linksys."
Or in my case, someone's open XBox Live wireless point in/near my apartment building.
The 45 is the daily use calculator. There are few things in this world that approach perfection. The HP-35 and the HP-45 are among those few things.
Sure, I could use PCalc on the Macintosh. I've got the free version that came with a set of OS install disks. It's a damn fine application.
However, the HP-45 is right by the keyboard. And I can operate it with my left hand and enter the results into the Mac via the keyboard keypad with my right.
And it's faster than invoking and using PCalc, too.
Who gets my HPs is in my will. I honestly expect both calculators to outlive me. And I'm only 57.
(Still looking for the hard leather belt holster for the 45 to go along with the hard leather belt holster for my Pickett slide rule.
Yes, I am that geeky!)
Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!/Seems like someone got up on the wrong side of the rock today!
Pick whichever seems appropriate.
It's a Slinky, made from lumpy bits of calcium, interspersed with disks of Play-Doh covered in Saran Wrap. All held together by bits of string made of meat.
Intelligent Design.
"My ENTIRE ass!" © Warren Ellis, AKA "Internet Jesus"
I am amazed at how cheap 10MM LEDs are via eBay.
Particularly if you buy in bulk!
Read the book, "WASP" by Eric Frank Russell.
Seriously. His ghost is laughing it's ectoplasmic ASS off right about now.
"I want one. Anyone managed to find one and put it up on ebay?"
Cheap LED Christnas lights via eBay, black spray paint and perfboard from Home Depot.
Use one of the MANY pictures as your guide as you stick the LEDs through the holes in your painted black slab of perfboard.
INSTANT TERRORIST BOMB!
"It's not my job to accommodate the pathological fears of others."
Honored sir! I bow thrice in thy honored direction!
"Perhaps... however, people carrying wired up circuit boards in public places isn't common."
Dude. Hang out around 77 Mass Ave in Cambridge for a few weeks.
You'll see a LOT of that sort of thing.
YOU won't understand one little bit of what its all about, however. And your mere presence WILL significantly lower the collective IQ all around you.
"You might think its no big deal, but to many Bostonians it is a very big deal and something we're mad as hell about."
Bite my shiny metal ass, meatsack! I'm a Bostonian and I think the whole thing is gutbustingly funny as hell!
I cannot wait until the next Weekly Dig hits the streets.
When they try that "hoax device" crap in court, it'll be thrown out so fast, it'll hit Somerville on the first bounce!
Let's build magnetic LED signs that display American Flags and flash the words:
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
And we'll stick them on bridges and buildings.
Lets see the morons flip out and call THEM bombs.
Then we can ask them, "Why do you hate America?" and "Why don't you support our troops?"
And then their heads go all asplody like.
Cheapass LED Christmas lights from eBay and perfboard from Home Depot.
Instant (cheap) art for the home of the discriminating Slashdotter.
Spraypaint the perfboard black for the extra terrorist bomb authenticity.
" No, it doesn't.
Doesn't play OGG, either.
Give it a week or two and both of these devices will be running linux. Especially the AppleTV"
But that would make Baby Jesus CRY!
"ahh but can it run linux..."
No, it doesn't.
Doesn't play OGG, either.
Sucks to be a smelly linux hippie today.
"You've got to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
It's just so easy. And so simple. I don't know why everyone doesn't run Linux."
#1: NAKED AMY!
And not that cop out "from the side so you just see her butt and some side-boob/no nipple" stuff!
No, we want full frontal naked Amy!
Full frontal naked Leela would be good, too.
But NO naked Zapp. Sweet Zombie Jesus, that would be bad! Very bad.
Oh, my.
Yes.
Jeebus! We had instant on computers 20 plus years ago!
****COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2****
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
Frob the power switch on the side, bring up the ML monitor in FastLoad or Warp Speed or SuperSnapShot and get to coding.
I can say for certainty that MS has, for decades, shipped an OS that was wide open to being easily exploited, via OS holes and two applications that begged to be used as vectors for virii, worms and trojans.
"And you weer able to fix it."
What is this, "The Preview Button", you speak of?
These words confuse me!
However, compared to the tens of thousands of 0wned Windows boxes, 0wned Linux boxes are what, a fraction of a percent of the Windows zombies?
And you weer able to fix it. Try fixing a zombiefied Windows machine, short of pulling the infected drive and replacing it with a fresh, virgin drive.
Which will be 0wned after 30 minutes connected to the Net, due to the POS that is Windows, coupled with the ignorance of the bog-standard Windows luser.