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| # Posted 2008-07-16 05:37:18 | |
| vmeyer: | In my spell check, if you right click on the word, you can add it to your dictionary. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 05:44:33 | |
| PG: | Folks on AP are so clever. :-)
So, what do I do to fix the space bar on my MacBook Pro? It seems to have gotten lazy, and I have to really hit it to make it register. Since I'm not used to doing that, I look up and I've just typed onelongword.... Started to act up last night. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 06:02:22 | |
| vmeyer: | Sorryican'thelpyouthere. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 06:47:43 | |
| jjcote: | It might just be used up. Those keys only have a certain number of characters in them, you know. On a desktop machine, you can just get a new keyboard when you run out, and on Windows laptops you can refill the keyboard if it gets empty, but I don't think you can with a Mac. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 07:08:16 | |
| walk: | Wash it. Put it out back the next time you water your lawn. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 21:55:39 | |
| coach: | Bring it to the Apple Store... |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 22:51:35 | |
| PBricker: | We had ants crawling inside the clear plastic covering of our Apple keyboard. Probably from Adam's eating and drinking at the computer. He had the idea of just spraying the keyboard with RAID, but I managed to convince him that it would kill more than just the ants. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 23:34:52 | |
| jeffw: | Try putting it in the dishwasher. Wait! Don't want you to do something stupid. Open it up, *then* put it in the dishwasher. |
| # Posted 2008-07-17 00:33:31 | |
| jjcote: | Water isn't as damaging to electronics as you might think (provided they aren't powered up). Here in the R&D lab, it's standard operating procedure to take a circuit board that has just had some minor modification (soldering) down to the bathroom and run it under hot water in the sink. Then it goes to the company at the end of the hall, where there's an air compressor, and it gets blow-dried. And after that, we plug it in and start working again. |
| # Posted 2008-07-17 04:40:10 | |
| bubo: | Re: Supermouse
We've had some encounters with maybe a distant relative here in Olomouc. If there were more than one we donīt know yet, but there was at least one resident rodent in our apartment on the fifth floor of our campus building. Luckily I managed to catch the guy in my trash can early Tuesday morning - so now heīs in Mouse Heaven (translation: in a much larger garbage container with lots more food for him). |
| # Posted 2008-07-18 08:30:37 | |
| PG: | The space bar -- I called up the local Apple retailer and the guy told me which way to pull to remove the space bar without breaking it, so I did that, and removed whatever stuff was hiding under there, and then followed his instructions on how to re-install the space bar. But of course, klutz that I am, I couldn't get it attached in such a way that it actually worked (at least before I started, one side had worked, now nothing worked).
So I packed up and drove to Northampton and the guy looked at it and installed it, and it didn't work, so he took a closer look and determined immediately that some little plastic gizmos weren't sitting right. So he fixed them and a minute later everything was fine. Must be nice to have talent.... Supermouse -- it seems he had a couple of friends/relatives, who have now joined him in mouse heaven. The curry works! |
| # Posted 2008-07-18 09:21:47 | |
| Ricka: | Seems that your heart-healthy SM's prefer curry (with turmeric) over those high-fat cheese and peanut butter snacks. Hope they don't figure out the downside of this heart healthy diet.
One does wonder in what IT course these guys learn to fix 'plastic gizmos'. Or more likely, experience pays off. |
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