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Monday, May 26th, 2008 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThere is nothing quite like a catastrophic keyboard failure in the middle of an online game to get people racing around trying to sort it out.
The batteries on Furtle's Mac keyboard upped and died (fortuitously) during a break in a Warcrack Raid. Our infinite supply of AA batteries seems to be infinite no more. We needed four and found two. Scrounging from a number of sources, including a rarely used transistor radio and the remote for our Freeview box, which currently only lets us watch Channel 5 increased our selection, but the keyboard remained stubbornly inactive.
I have a spare cordless keyboard that works by some other system rather than the Mac's bluetooth, but having spent several months in a corner with a plug adapter sitting on it, it seems that the batteries therein were flat, too. Happily, THAT keyboard only requires two, not four AA batteries and after some faffing, the raid continues. Tomorrow we buy more batteries. New ones for Furtle's keyboard, plus several spares and some replacements for my rarely used tranny. I may not bother replacing those in the freeview remote. I can get Channel 5 on analogue...
The batteries on Furtle's Mac keyboard upped and died (fortuitously) during a break in a Warcrack Raid. Our infinite supply of AA batteries seems to be infinite no more. We needed four and found two. Scrounging from a number of sources, including a rarely used transistor radio and the remote for our Freeview box, which currently only lets us watch Channel 5 increased our selection, but the keyboard remained stubbornly inactive.
I have a spare cordless keyboard that works by some other system rather than the Mac's bluetooth, but having spent several months in a corner with a plug adapter sitting on it, it seems that the batteries therein were flat, too. Happily, THAT keyboard only requires two, not four AA batteries and after some faffing, the raid continues. Tomorrow we buy more batteries. New ones for Furtle's keyboard, plus several spares and some replacements for my rarely used tranny. I may not bother replacing those in the freeview remote. I can get Channel 5 on analogue...