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And she has a grudge against SLY students. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment(s)!: Fixer Glyptodon says, “If the dinosaurs can’t Google ‘lysine’, there’s no way they can escape the island!”
AND: Fixer TexasDan says, “I’ve set my password to YLSSYL and pried out the keys so no one can log in as…oh wait…”
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Remember – The wrong keys are electrified.
BZZZT!!
This person really can’t afford the time and money to drive to the nearest computer store and pick up a replacement for what looks like a $7 membrane keyboard?!
Obviously you have come to the wrong site.
The wires are there so when he contacts them the keyboard will send the “TRUE” command on that key script.
I’d really like to see how this person “speed types” with this thing?
S, Y and F right? Those are pretty much used keys, couldn’t he just take out other 3 not-so-used keys (F10 F11 and F12 maybe?) and replace those?
F is there, L isn’t.
Well then, F that.
To L with it, too!
^Double-Win
It is because this picture was altered. The D looks like an L and the person didn’t fix it or the O or F7 key. It looks like they fixed the U key poorly if they tired to. I don’t know if they did?
I recognize that keyboard model. It’s the kind that has EL wire underneath the membrane.
Looks to me like someone is getting ready to script an application on a system where application scripting is difficult. Older Unix users may remember the “yes” command. It sends out a sequence of the letter “y” followed by an end of line. It was written before fsck had a “-y” flag.
WTF are you talking about? I do some unix, but that makes no sense.
Some silly programs aren’t written to be run unattended. They keep prompting you for permission and the like all the time. “yes” is designed to be piped into these programs — it endlessly repeats some string (by default “y”) so the user doesn’t have to. fsck’s -y flag turns off prompts in exactly the same fashion.
As a keyboard, that thing is now horrid. I couldn’t use it very well.
However, it does give me some ideas for a interfacing switches and such to a computer. Pity I don’t have any hobbies that would benefit. (yet) The tricky part, I suppose, would be finding a keyboard that supported the full matrix; some keyboards are wired cheaply, and reuse traces such that some of their keys can’t be pressed in concert with each other.
But yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy doesssss Take it sssssssso sssssssssssseriouslllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
This is clearly at the other end of the kludge a few back, with those mysterious 6 wires appearing to go into an USB plug.Here they are again, the same black single-core wires, and exactly six of them. The fact that they appear pair-wise out of a missing key cavity would suggest that they are replacing the contacts for that key, but no. The trick is evidently not to type, but rather find the data and clock lines and jitter them between the +5 and ground at the right speed.
The Borgs… they’re everywhere and they will a-*bzzt*-*bzzt*-i-m-i-*bzzt*a-t-e *bzzt*-o-u.
I bet that if you connect S1 to Y2, L2 to S2 and Y1 to L1 you reveal an easter egg… or detonate a bomb.
This is how you hotwire the Internet.
Im assuming that touching the wires together has the same effect as pressing the keys. (if it were there)
Maybe planning to rig some gadget to the keys for remote control?
Poor Sylvia couldn’t understand why her teacher never got her work.
Pretty “SLY” mod, but that can’t be a membrane KB. I’ve never managed to attach wires directly to a membrane.
In Soviet Russia, hackers learn to hotwire computer.
The quick brown fox jumps-zzztttt! over the l-zzztttt!-azy-zzztttt! dog.
Mac Gyver learned to type on this keyboard.
I’ve set my password to YLSSYL and pried out the keys so no one can log in as…oh wait…
WTH?…. just move lesser-used keys to those keys. If you are a hunt-and-pecker, you’d have to white out and write the correct letter on there. This just dumb. I shouldn’t be so annoyed by this, but a new keyboard is like 10$ tops.
Heh. You said pecker.
ps @ moderator: Billy’s Teacher Take? I’ll donate a S if yours is missing.
It’s a new, painful way to stop type-o’s.
you mean to make type-o’s do you see how close those wires are.
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L is for Learning
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This picture does make the mind wonder how things would be different if there were no ‘l’, ‘s’, and ‘y’ letters in our alphabet. For example…
- There would be no such thing as adverbs. As a result, no one would have ever heard of Tom Swifty.
- We wouldn’t have plural words except for things like oxen and deer.
- A fly would have to be called a buzz.
- When a jerk cuts someone off in traffic, it would not be uncommon for the driver to roll down his window and yell “Butt orifice!”
- Reporters would make sure when interviewing someone to ask those important questions: Who? What? When? Where? and How come?
- The only acceptable double negative would be ‘not no’ instead of ‘yes’.
- There would still be a http://thereifixedit.com, but the fixes would be known as ‘kudgen’.
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Ack! You’re right about Tom Swifty, (aka: Tom _wift_). How much less punny my elementary school years would have been… I can only think of one off the top of my head that doesn’t have an -ly ending:
“Oh, no! I dropped the toothpaste!” Tom said, crestfallen.
(cre_tfa__en?)
Lots of seriously golden thoughts you have!
If the dinosaurs can’t google ‘lysine’, there’s no way they can escape the island!
I hate to be that guy but I really don’t enjoy the new snark comments that accompany each post as of late. I would say that the further attempts at jokes make me enjoy the images much less than I would have otherwise.
I still love this blog, but it’s more like a blog I love just decided it didn’t need to shower EVERY day, you know?
So, don’t read the comments… duh.
Pretentious troll is pretentious.
And repetitive.
“Pretentious? Moi?”
Than leave already. If you leave right now, you can make the circle jerk over at hawtness.com on time.
This is clearly just the start of the key removal project, the most commonly used letters in the English language are R S T L N E, and Since Y is sometimes a vowel and sometimes a consonant it’s easy to hold a grudge.
Then ha! the other letters shall have the day! All shall be forced to find alternative words to fit their keyboards.
I like most of these pictures, but I agree with a few people. This one is just pointless. Just take lesser used keys. its not abot buying a new keyboard, more than half of the stuff on here is about fixing something no mater what, that can be fixed and still serve a purpose. That being said, this isn’t at all. It would be like adding a 1000 foot extensions cord to your toaster for absolutely no reason!!! if I did that would that picture get posted?
This is a slow reprogramming of people who can only use LOL-speak. First you will no longer be able to type LOL, then WTF. After a few weeks of electroshock therapy to drive the point home, you’ll be released back into the wild, tagged and set for monitoring.
Absolute WIN.
As a semi-recovering LOLspeaker, I agree. (that’s only 6 forbidden keyen!)
And here we got the keyboard sprouts (organic, obviously) coming out to life again this Spring. Ah the beauty of nature’s gift…
My guess is that it’s an in-process picture of a project that required three input lines to the computer (and the maker didn’t know how to interface with USB, serial, or parallel ports).
Heh, I have that keyboard, its a piece-o-crap.
But it lights up.
This is a Wheel of Fortune moment:
Pat Sajak: “Spin again, Cheryl.”
Cheryl: “I’d like to solve it. It’s the qwerty keyboard!”
Pat Sajak: “Right you are, Cheryl. Vanna, could you turn the remaining tiles?”
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On the other hand, it could be the old keyboard of a big fan of Sylvester Stallone. Anyone want to guess his password?
I think your keyboard has worms. You’d better get that looked at.
I think I used to play Counter Strike with that guy. Some asian dude that couldn’t walk backwards but still pwned!
now that’$ ju$t $i11v
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