h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just spilt peach juice on my keyboard. The result is that the space key doesn't work, or rather it does work but it either jams or takes ages to come back up. So don't expect anything amazingly deep or coherent from me for a while, as I have to copy and paste spaces which takes ages.

I can do smileys though

eeekkk, how sucky, I continually do crap like that, with cereal and milk, tea, coffee, crisps, tortilla chips, and various alcoholic beverages..in fact the volume control doesn't work at all for some reason! Can't think why...it's not like I hold the keyboard up and give it a really good bone rattling shake to get said crap out

Don't really know how you are gonna get the sticky peach juice off, mebbe you could take the keyboard apart and give it clean, altho if your anything like me, when I put stuff together again there is always some screw, washer, shiny white bit left over that I don't know where it came from, perhaps it Q.T'd from elsewhere, or I made a mini black hole vortex when I was messing with electronics....

Mebbe if you let your keyboard get dusty or throw some chalk on it, it might dry it up

Roadkill,

Open the keyboard, carefully take the layers of sticky plasticky whatsits out and clean them with a clean damp cloth. When they are completely dry again re-assemble the keyboard. I did this once with - big surprise - a full glass of rioja. But do it as soon as possible before the acid in the juice affects all the whaddayacallems. (apologies for all the techno-speak )

Good luck!

az

erm - unplug keyboard first, right?

az

Manical vixen-



Nice to know I'm not the only one!

az - Thanks for the advice! You are a star . I took the space bar off, it's the only one I'm having problems with. I may turn the computer off and do that in the next few days.

I do sympathise Roadkill! Mine is pretty disgusting, i find that dropping cigarette ash on it helps dry up the sticky stuff nicely.

Yes, do PLEASE turn the Beast off first; visions of Roadkill nicely fried

Rattling noises in techno stuff are my speciality. I took my nice, shiny new mobile phone back & complained that it rattled ominously, please could i have a new one? The sales person said "You dropped it didn't you?" accusingly, I was able to reply truthfully "No!"

In actual fact, i had hurled it at the wall in utter frustration...

Maybe-you-could-use-this-sort-of-style-for-now-Roadkill?

Terri

Benefits of smoking, part one: when you get ash in the keyboard, it dries up the sticky stuff down there.

I'm a non- smoker, i'll have to spill salt and pepper down there or summin.

I nicked my mum's keyboard, so the keyboard is unplugged and ready for cleaning. Space bar all fixed, the easy way.

ForawhileIspokelikethisbutitwasreallyconfusingandpeoplekeptonthinkingiwastypingrudewordswhenitypedthingslike'butit'butiwasn't.

That was why the copy- and- paste mechanism was developed.

Phones are nightmares. As is MSN. It's added you but I can't see a little green figure that indicates I can chat .

Roadkill,

I meant unscrew it from the back and take out the layers with all the connecting thingys and make sure they are cleaned and dried, not just remove bits from the top of the keyboard. Well, I suppose it depends on how much juice you spilled.

az

I'll do that as well. I spilt about half a glass, and a lot of it drained. Still, worth a look.

I'm too lazy to clean these things. I'd probably buy a new one. Then again I'm chatting with you right now so obviously sommat works

Yeah, I am "borrowing" one at the moment.

MSN: I'm definitely online now! Try again, i shall try you, no doubt we will get crossed lines but you never know. You don't seem to appear on my list but I am sure i put you there!

*curses yet blesses technostuff*

zdt

Ah ha! wise person! Are all bets off?

zdt

The keyboard on my lap top isn't working at all at the moment, I'm having to plugh a keyboard into it.

I spilt blackcurrent squash on my calculator but it worked fine until part way through my 'environental measurement' exam when the bracket key got stuck down.

Hpe you manage to clean up all the peach jouice and end up with a fully functional space bar.

How come this thread is in "Wide Screen" is it a movie or was it the juce that caused it
Ive got a 17" screen, and its still too wee to see the whole page
Smudger.

ME TOO! I haven't a clue how it all goes wide sometimes, it's rather a sore point with me (don't ask!)

But if there is any way to make it a bit smaller for us folks with little dinky ancient screens, we would be very grateful!



--glad i seem to be able to post a message here, can't access my own journal at the moment, i reckon they hope we wil give up & go away!

zdt

It's wide on my screen too, just enough to have to scroll a bit to read the full line.

I can't get pages to load most the time at the moment, not entirely sure why I'm still trying.

Hmmmm
Hi
I cannot believe I have not spilled something in my keyboard.

*I should not say that*

*waves at abbi, whilst simultaneously holding , typing, drinking & smoking*

The chances of my keyboard not being destroyed are slim, i think it has built up a natural immunity!

zdt

Eyes again, Terri, and yet MSN is still being infuriating .

I think it's because when I did the whole joinedupwordsthing it was too long for one line so it extended the screen. If you press control and move your third mouse button (if you are lucky enough to have a third mouse button) around then you should be able to decrease the font size. Might work, might not.