THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

周日被某人说键盘很脏之后，我对于我键盘积灰的容忍程度终于超过了阈值。于是当机立断买了个键盘膜（此处省略键盘膜厂商与网购站点名字，以避开做广告之嫌）。

因为天朝盛产人类，造成了劳动力资源的过剩，继而导致快递市场的激烈竞争，所以在下单不到24小时之后，我拿到了我的键盘膜。既然要给键盘穿件新衣服，按照我们礼仪之邦的规矩，当然是要斋戒沐浴的啦。于是便开始了键盘除尘的工作。在用电吹风没有达到预期效果，反而导致键盘发烫之后，我狠下心来准备把键盘拆了。笔记本的键盘从来没拆过，便google之。在找到ibm的键盘以及手掌支撑（palm rest）拆卸指导之后，顺利的将键盘拆下。但是我发现，拆下来还是没法很好地除尘！！！关键是新的thinkpad系列（我不知道以前的系列，还有其他品牌是否同样如此）的键盘下面有一整块金属板。那些猥琐地躲在阴暗角落的灰尘，由于这块金属板的阻挡，和没拆下来的时候一样难以去除。我很无奈地只得再把键盘等部件安装回去。没办法，只能用上次看到的那招了——用胶带将键盘沟槽中的灰尘粘掉。但由于这种方法过于繁琐，所以在重点区域被定点清除之后，我便放弃了。另外一个办法是用小型吸尘器，不过我没有这个设备……

好了，斋戒沐浴工作就这样草草的结束了。贴皮吧！把膜放上去之后，发觉非常的松啊。肯定是要双面胶的么。于是再利用了三点构成一个平面（其实不能算是平面）的原理（因为在三维空间里，去除特殊情况外，三个向量必能构成一个二维的线性子空间）之后，键盘膜被固定了。

装了键盘膜的优点是脏了可以洗，看了不爽就可以换一张；缺点则是手感变差。不得不说thinkpad的键盘，手感还是很好的。现在多了一层膜之后，比较诡异啊～

注意：以下皆是技术内容，不喜勿入。

A tragic thing happened to my T400 Laptop last Sunday. I did reboot after installing some software, and suddenly the machine can't initialize its hard disk correctly. It gave the following error message:

Error 2100, hard drive initialization error (2).

I was quite surprised since my laptop has only been used for about 7 or 8 months. Together with Lenovo's so-called AES technique, I think the hard drive is well protected. How can it be broken for such a short period!!!

Then I started to diagnose what was wrong with the laptop. At first, I tried to read BIOS information and do a HDD Diagnosis. But BIOS complained it couldn't find my main hard drive! I was quite shocked and a little panic. Altough I sync most important data to Live Mesh, but I still have a lot of files in that laptop. And reinstalling the whole system takes way too much time and efforts. Then I searched a little bit on Google. Lenovo gives general suggestion on Error 2100: replug the hard drive. I did it, and still didn't work. Then I used Win 7 RC installation CD to boot the machine, and hoped that maybe it could fixe the problem. Win 7 repair tool found the hard drive and recognized all the partitions, files. But the "Attempting repair" procedure didn't stop in a tolerable time. So again, it was a dead end. But this calmed me down a little: my data could be saved in principle.

I searched the problem on Google again. I found a hard driver firmware fix provided by Lenovo since the end of 2006. The fix has been updated a lot of times and the error expands from numerous Thinkpad and hard driver models. It is just ridiculous. At first, I thought maybe the firmware of the hard drive is not compatible with Vista (and above). But then I saw complaints from people using XP. Well, I have to say that Lenovo did a great job of ruining the credibility of Thinkpad. 

I called Lenovo Tech Support on Monday. The support engineer was just so so. He was very kind, but I really doubted his technique skills. The guy couldn't even say diagnosis. Lenovo's solution is trivial: Replace the hard drive for me. Well, it is easy for them and somehow cost saving (hours of fixing hard drive also costs a lot). But it is not very satisfying for me. I need to reinstall the OS and all software I used. The cost Lenovo saves is transferred to me. Also if someone didn't backup her/his data, then it is even worse since Lenovo said they do not provide any data recovery support. I felt lucky that I successfully transferred most of my data from the laptop to a USB hard drive by a Ubuntu Live CD.

Now I'm using the laptop with the new Hitachi hard drive. I wish it will not break so soon, although some models of Hitachi also appeared on the fix list, including the one I am currently using. I took half a day to install Win 7 RC and all the software I use. To not see this thing completely negative, I could only say it is good to get a totally new hard drive since I used BT frequently, with high speed read/write (thx to HK's 30MB bandwidth) on the old one.

很多做技术的朋友，可能不是很了解非技术的微软是个什么样的。我也是第一次看到此类文章，感觉挺有意思。颇有当年《圈子圈套》的风范。无聊的时候不妨一读。
http://www.copytaste.com/je2955s2

Office 2007 已经推出了3年（还是4年？）了，用起来比原来的Office 2003要顺手很多。里面的那个数学输入，更是近年来微软难得的很出挑的创新。但现在似乎我所能见到的word文档，还有其他组件使用的情况，仍然是以Office 2003为主。不太明白是什么原因。唯一的解释是原来的Office 2003的功能已经足够了，所以在没有大力推广的情况下（至少在中国很少），大多数人仍然用的是Office 2007。因为改变总是需要开销的，而人们 又是懒惰的。

有其他想法的朋友，请留言。

Bought from Toys R Us in HK.

May the force be with you.