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Weird Noises
Jun. 26th, 2005 09:07 pmI love Glastonbury. For the past couple of years or more I have avidly taped all that I can of it. This year, thanks to advances in technology, I've gott all of BBC Three's and all of BBC Two's coverage, onto hard disc. So I can now spend a happy week editing it onto DVD. So far I've only seen bits and pieces, and most of it has been great. Indeed, it's really a matter of mentioning the groups who "pass me by" rather than the ones who I enjoyed. So, null points from Birks for Bloc Party and Primal Scream, and zillions of points for New Order, Rufus Wainwright, Garbage, Interpol, the hitherto not-particularly-admired Kasabian, and, best of all (of what I have seen), The Kaiser Chiefs.
Since I got the office computer back, apparently repaired, it has been doing weird things. I spent ages trying to work out what was causing the strange beeping noises when I turned it on, and then also resulted in occasional crashes. It seemed like an intermittent motherboard fault. So I hunted down all that I could, and found absolutely nothing.
So you want to know what it was? It was the "+" key on the numeric keyboard that had jammed down after its friendly plaster attack. Garbage Dell keyboards.... I must have come across the "sticky keyboard" problem at least four times in the past 20 years of computer use (the Amstrad's were particularly vulnerable to it), and it fools me every bloody time.
Since I got the office computer back, apparently repaired, it has been doing weird things. I spent ages trying to work out what was causing the strange beeping noises when I turned it on, and then also resulted in occasional crashes. It seemed like an intermittent motherboard fault. So I hunted down all that I could, and found absolutely nothing.
So you want to know what it was? It was the "+" key on the numeric keyboard that had jammed down after its friendly plaster attack. Garbage Dell keyboards.... I must have come across the "sticky keyboard" problem at least four times in the past 20 years of computer use (the Amstrad's were particularly vulnerable to it), and it fools me every bloody time.
