the keyboard gave up the ghost on it a couple of weeks ago; and the DC cable from the power supply had an intermittent break in it.
All happened just as I had to deal with filling out an Ofcom license form amd multiple telecoms routing faults at remote sites; then I had to keep out hackers from a VOIP circuit.
These are not the most fun tasks anyway and hard on the back/eyes/knees as well as brain when you have to use two netbooks of varying stability/reliabilty and the newer Raspberry PI hooked up to a cheap ASDA LED telly (as it has HDMI input). There is some stuff I can do easily on Windows such as ssh tunnels at a remote linux box that I still struggle with on Linux desktop [which probably doesn’t seem logical to anyone here who does know computer science better than myself] but I was too busy partying when I was supposed to be learning that stuff.
At least I remembered to put the chopstick back in the drawer it came from (the ribbon cable from the keyboard to the rest of the laptop is held by a particularly fiddly and fragile connector; and there are some hidden plastic latches that hold the keyboard in. You are supposed to use a “flat plastic screwdriver” but I’ve never seen one of sufficiently strong plastic sold in any British electronics supplier (metal tools can scratch up the PCB tracks and knacker the motherboard).Nor did I absent mindedly add a few shots of isopropyl alcohol to some fruit juice I was drinking (that can make you quite ill).
Ok there is a sketchy splice in the DC power cable and the whole thing probably puts out even more radio interference but it works and I wasn’t immediately wanting to buy another PSU for about €50
(test data follows)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 0123456789 /*-+ €$
Kaufen Sie jede Woche vier gute bequelme Pelze xy 0123456789 /*-+€$
Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume 0123456789 /*-+€$
Pa’s wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct 0123456789 /*-+€$
Quizdeltagerne spitse jordbær med fløde, mens cirkusklovnen Walther spillede på xylofon 0123456789 */-+€$
— —
/* warning, do *not* try and compile it on any system that
might cause you or anyone else problems if it crashes
I have probably got this completely wrong
*/
#include
int *a_cow ;
main () {
printf(“size of a cow is %lun”,
(unsigned long)sizeof(a_cow));
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
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/* warning, do *not* try and compile it on any system that
might cause you or anyone else problems if it crashes
I have probably got this completely wrong
*/
#include
int *a_cow ;
main () {
printf(“size of a cow is %lun”,
(unsigned long)sizeof(a_cow));
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
