[tech] Keyboards

[Andrew Adamson]

Hi All,

I've just arrived at the clubroom to find that the DAS keyboard from 
clownfish has been moved to cobra and relabelled, and then replaced with 
an old Sun rubber dome thing. Catfishes keyboard cable is broken, so I can 
only assume there has been a three-way swap.

This sort of behaviour is frequent, and incredibly unfair to those of 
us who use the Linux machines. We are not here to use the broken gear from 
the Windows machines.

If a computers keyboard is broken, that should be replaced with a spare, 
or fixed - not taken from another machine. I note there has not been any 
sort of email or communication to the lists to say that the USB cable 
needs replacing, yet someone made the effort to use the label maker to say 
the cable is broken. I have no words for this.

Can door members please keep an eye out for people doing this (or stop 
doing it themselves).

Can committee please approve me buying a new DAS keyboard for clownfish - 
there are other brands, but the DAS keyboards have outlived nearly 
everything else in the room. This one for $239 with $19 shipping: 
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/27227/das-keyboard-4-professional-mechanical-keyboard-cherry-blue

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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