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Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?
- tempodox 12y agoYour keyboard was probably recycled from a USB toaster for Windows.
- mariusz79 12y agoCylons are people too, you know.. No need for name calling.
- matthewmacleod 12y agoFascinating. Did the driver developer not even plug it in to check?
- GurnB 12y agoYou would think this type of device would be a FireWire 800 connection not USB.
- esquivalience 12y agoI guess it looks like a did-not-test error... but I'd like to think this was a deliberate decision to exploit already-embedded artwork.
- tragic 12y agoWelcome to the glorious new age of the internet of things!
- eloisant 12y ago- hey boss, I got the driver working from the sample but the icon is a toaster - can you fix it? - not sure, I tried a whole day and couldn't figure it out... - whatever, ship it!
- asdfaoeu 12y agoThe middle two lines never happen.
- ender89 12y agoCan confirm, no manager listens to anything you say after you admit that its working. The most I'll ever admit to is being "just about ready for QC".
- yen223 12y agoThis would never happen if they implemented toast-driven development.
- ender89 12y agoMore like "Hey boss, we need to pay someone to make a keyboard icon!" "Hahaha, no. Work it out." and why worry about an icon when you have a perfectly good toaster as a placeholder?
- blowski 12y agoI guess someone copied and pasted from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256224 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256...
- userbinator 12y agoIt's more likely that whoever wrote the driver and used the default package didn't even notice the icon - after all, it's a keyboard driver - it should just work when it's plugged in.
- oftenwrong 12y agoEvery USB toaster I've had has been too slow to be practical, so I always switched back to a conventional toaster eventually. Maybe when USB 3.0 toasters start coming down in price I'll give them another shot.
- abrowne 12y agoI've been happy with my Bluetooth toaster, as long as I don't microwave something at the same time. ;-)
- CalRobert 12y agoFirewire could deliver 30V and 1.5A (45 Watts). An average toaster uses around 1000 Watts. With a very small and efficient design you just might be able to get a small piece of toast to work. As I understand it USB for power may reach 100 Watts, which could power an E-Z Bake oven.
- KMag 12y agoAn infrared laser diode toaster toasts a narrow band of the bread at a time, but toasts a full sized slice.
- CalRobert 12y agoThat reminds me of my request to use the laser cutter at LA's hackerspace on beef jerky. Seemed to me that laser-etched beef jerky greeting cards would be pretty awesome, but they weren't so thrilled with the idea.
- brokentone 12y agoWhat's to say you couldn't use multiple plugs (granted that's linear growth when you need 10x)?
- disposablename 12y agohttp://www.bit-tech.net/news/modding/2006/09/18/usb_hotplate_cooks_dinner/1 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/modding/2006/09/18/usb_hotplate...
- cezarywojcik 12y agoI wonder how long it'll take before we have actual USB toasters and grills...
- Erwin 12y agoApparently USB 3.1 -- called SuperSPEED+ (not to be confused with "Full Speed" (USB 1), "Hi-Speed" (USB 2) or "SuperSpeed" (without +, USB 3.0) supports up to 100 W. A toaster takes 800-1500 W. But you could get a USB-compatible incandescent light bulb. Perhaps in 2030, the European Union will require all wall sockets to be USB 7.0 compatible. As you plug in your vacuum it will not only receive 2000 W of power but will be able to share contents of the dust compartment with your friends via the Internet of Things. Lost an earring? Your friend's vacuum can now tweet you about it.
- jordanthoms 12y agoThat's not actually all that crazy - I remember seeing a proposal for an electrical plug which had voltage and current negotiation - no power gets supplied until the handshake gets done. Makes the plug itself very safe (and you can have central transformers to provide 110v, 240v, 5v etc throughout your house).
- vetinari 12y agoLater you will also get things like 'Not for use in your region' as a part of handshake and a heap of materials, that cannot be powered on. Me, cynical? Nooo....
- NAFV_P 12y agoAll toasters are equal, but some toasters are more equal than others: http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Talkie_Toaster http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Talkie_Toaster
- laumars 12y agoDoes anyone know why a toaster icon was picked above other place-holder icons? My educated guess would be paying homage to the old flying toasters screensaver.
- kybernetyk 12y agoMy guess would be: "Ok, let's pick something totally insane as an example so people won't just copy & paste it and do proper testing instead".
- dan1234 12y agoMicrosoft's sample code for driver development is for a hypothetical toaster bus[0]. I'm guessing someone built their real driver off the samples and either forgot to find an appropriate icon or left in a UUID which is associated with that icon in Windows. [0]http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256224 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256...
- laumars 12y agoSorry, my question wasn't very clear. I get that the driver icon came from the Microsoft's example driver code. My question was why MS chose to use a toaster as their example. Of course, there is always the possibility that these things are chosen just out of pure chance / randomness. But often there's more history to the decision than that.
- SergeyDruid 12y agoCould it be that the superuser.com OP changed the icon? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff550727(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff5... mentions a toaster made by "Fabrikam, Inc.", a fictional Microsoft company. Could it also be a Microsoft easter egg?
- DanBC 12y agoI don't think MS do easter egss anymore. Wait, here's a post about why the OS division doesn't do easter eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483608.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoWow are they a bunch of wet blankets. There is no more risk of EE having security issues than any other code. EE code is generally small (miniscule). Lots of rhetoric in that link, but almost nothing meaningful but 'we want to be taken seriously'.
- JonnieCache 12y agoAlmost certainly some government or massive corp forced them to stop for regulatory reasons of some kind.
- laumars 12y agoMaybe I'm a wet blanket as well, but I'd rather not have undocumented features if there's even the slightest risk of it introducing bugs or vulnerabilities. Sadly there isn't much room for Easter Eggs in the modern professional IT industry since software is constantly being attacked (it's hard enough keeping documented features secure!). Which is why these days most Easter Eggs tend to be hidden away online[1][2] [1] http://konamicodesites.com/ http://konamicodesites.com/ (↑↑↓↓←→←→BA) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easter_eggs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_east...
- cellover 12y agoAt least the toaster-icon designer guy got some exposition now!
- nothans 12y agoMaybe so it can use Twitter. See MyToaster - https://twitter.com/mytoaster https://twitter.com/mytoaster
- NDizzle 12y agoThere's an Afterdark joke in here somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
- JonnieCache 12y agoMicrosoft is slowly catching up with BSD... http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
- tegeek 12y agoHave you tested what we're shipping this evening? No, but I'm already using "industry best practices".
- skizm 12y agoDoes anyone know the model of the keyboard? Someone asked in the thread, but OP does not answer.
- tim333 12y agoMaybe it's this toaster http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/bbcinternet/2009/04/bbc_iplayer_now_available_on_a.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/bbcinternet/2009/04/bbc_ip...
- skizm 12y agoDoes anyone know the model of the keyboard? Someone asked in the thread, but OP does not answer.
- harry07 12y agoHaha i seen your post on 9gag