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Article #86Re: Crisis in Japan: defective electro caps round the world
From: Clive Mitchell
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:03
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:03
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In article <at1cp5$rna$3$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, root@mauve.demon.co.uk writes >Then again, I'm running linux, and my new motherboard hasn't crashed >yet in the week or so I've had it. >I think the hardware gets blamed a lot for incompatibilities in the >software. >> It's a good excuse though... It's not the software, your capacitors have exploded. >> I found a very old keyboard in the attic the other day. >> I tried to smash it with a heavy hammer (so my grandfather >> wouldn't pick it from the dustbin because it looked usefull, heh). > >Old keyboards can be much nicer, having a better feel, and without >those damn windows keys. Mmm, remember those really expensive reed switch keyboards where each key had a magnet in it, they felt so solid and comfortable that today's squishy membrane keyboards just feel like the proverbial dead flesh. -- Clive Mitchell http://www.bigclive.com
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