It's a messy business.

[ACtheTROLL]

I'm sure this is only partly a 'puter question.....

for the 10,000,000,000,000th time two - TWO of my muppets have upended a coke can over their keyboard.
(It isn't as bad as it sounds ... we use the rubber membrane ones for just this reason - so a quick swill generally does the trick.)

however ....
it strikes me that this has to stop ....
the current trend is that the trainee "yoof" seem incapable of breathing unless they have a sandwich in one hand ... a phone pressed to their ear with the other .... and a can of pop ... or a bottle of water grasped in the other (that's 3?)

generally a few barked commands sort them out ... but the first day is always a battle.

I want a can holder .... something heavy enough that a ham fisted eeejit has to try hard to knock over.

we've been searching on the net .... and while the americans have a wide selection of devices ... we brits don't seem to have given it much thought .... except for screwing a plastic thingy to the dashboard of a car.

or for the more privileged boating community a solid brass gymballed giro leveled thingy for �400

We have found that a full 2" roll of masking tape is about ideal ... it's heavy enough, wide enough at the base - a can fits comfortably inside ... and even quite a hard knock only skates it across the desk.
however it's sticky paper and cardboard ... it won't last 10 minutes .... and it won't be long before we find one of the weaker students mummified in tape and suspended from a ceiling tile.

any ideas where a more professional solution could be found?

[vehelpfulguy]

>for the 10,000,000,000,000th time

Now ACtheTROLL, I have told you a million times not to exaggerate.

[shylock73]

easy answer, don`t let em within 3ft of the puter with a drink.

[Ethel]

http://www.drinkholdem.com/

http://tinyurl.com/2lfrex

[pug100]

I'd second what shylock says. No food or drink whilst at the computer. Once had to hoover out a keyboard that seemed to have had years of gunky crumbs inside it. Yuk.

[peanut]

Put a huge heating pad on the desk. If they don't want hot pop they will find another place to put it :)

[peanut]

Sorry I missed the part where you asked for a professional solution.

[ACtheTROLL]

Shy/pug ... I wish it was that simple ...
the H&S rules say we can't break their fingers ...
apprentices - however many times you tell them ... on the first day ... things just appear from the bottomless knapsack. ... and my bladder isn't what it was ... sometimes I come back to a picnic
strangely - the old gits are just as bad ... seen it all ... and can't get through a session without a horlicks and a sanatogen in the afternoon

vhg ... one of my many failings !;)

ethel
I daren't let them play poker as well!
as for the helmet ... well I suspect you are taking the beer resedue !;0 -
unfortunately the watever has to sit on the desk

[rojash]

You think you have problems - I had a client ring me yesterday to tell me that she'd emptied a flower vase into her CRT monitor, and now it wouldn't work. I said, "surely you switched it off?"

"Of course - then I switched it back on again and the green light is orange and there's no picture - what should I do next?"

"SWITCH IT OFF RIGHT NOW, AND UNPLUG IT!"

[rojash]

BTW this is the same client who ask me if I would go set up her broadband router:

"Sure, when do you want me to come?"

"Well the guy at OTE (that's like Greek BT) said to wait for the ADSL light to come on and it might take a day or two"

"When did you get it?"

"Last week"

"And the green light is still not on?"

"No"

"Are any lights on?"

"No"

"Errr, you did plug it in?"

"Well, no, I thought I should wait for the ADSL light to come on"...