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September 22, 2006
Key donor and Tippex engineering solution
My Dell laptop thankfully was not amongst those that spectacularly combust and were recalled. Regular reader(s) will know though that it has a curious affliction whereby keys drop off and go AWOL, first the 'Z' and then the 'W' have vanished in this manner.
Having being a Church based worker I am adept at improvising and also furnishing DIY repairs (Gaffa tape is a staple requirement for Youth ministers I reckon) and so I have had a bash at fixing the Laptop. Using the weird key below the escape button for which I know of no purpose and the "Alt Gr" key (again, no idea) as donors I have then grafted them into the correct position and then applied Tippex to re-mark them.
You probably can't tell at all as it's such a good job but for the more observant and technically adept, here's the results of the invisible repair ;-)
Posted by ian at September 22, 2006 01:26 PM
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I guess you don't write in foreign languages then... Alt Gr is a neat way of getting to the accents "Alt Gr" + "a" = á and so on.
"Alt Gr" + "4" = € (handy for business bods)
In MS applications it opens a world of "fun" for most keys
¬ and ¦ are useful in certain scripting languages and used by software bods.
If you want replcaement keys you might be interested in:
Posted by: Chris at September 22, 2006 07:08 PM
My Dell does the same too. I have lost the T key and the up and down arrows. Dell are rubbish I believe! They must be if someone is selling the keys on ebay! It must be a really common problem!
Posted by: Laura at September 23, 2006 09:22 AM
The Alt Gr button has a big function here in Belgium. We use this key to use with the number keys above the letters.
1 - |
2 - @
3 - #
4 - {
5 - [
6 - ^
9 - {
0 - }
En also with the buttons at the right of the letters:
Next to P
^¨[ $*]
Next to L
mM ù%´ µ£
Next to M
,? ;. :/ =+~
Posted by: Matthew at October 20, 2006 09:09 PM