New Videos Series

So this week I've started working on something a little bit different. At work, since I have a healthy amount of free time this month, I'll be making a series of videos dedicated to quick tips for the next I.T. student worker. Since I'll be leaving after December and there's always a transitional "hiccup" with any new employee, I'd like to help ease that in the future. If I have extra time, I'll also be doing some simpler tip-and-trick "how to" videos for people who may just want a little extra knowledge of how to keep their own computers up to snuff. Additionally, I'll be doing some heavier things like gutting a laptop and moving all of its internal components into a new case (which I'm really looking forward to).

Anyway, I've made my first two videos, and I figured I may as well blog them here.

It Died, So I Killed It

Today I discovered that my wireless keyboard was dead.

This thing was old. The receiver was a big (about the size of a standard mouse), obnoxious-looking thing that plugged into the computer with a dual combination of USB and a traditional keyboard plug. The keyboard itself was even more obnoxious, with buttons for functions that ceased to exist (or at least ceased to be useful) with the advent of Windows Vista. I'm pretty sure that when this keyboard was in stores, 512MB of RAM was the performance norm and 500GB hard drives hadn't yet hit the market.

Something so ancient surely deserved a proper farewell. So, I decided to destroy it while recording it at 120fps with my GoPro.

You're welcome.