Nobody likes working at a dirty keyboard but as we spend more and more time at our computer our keyboards become dirtier and dirtier. They can end up covered in food crumbs, paper, hair, skin and germs.

Cleaning a computer keyboard can be done in one of two ways

A surface keyboard clean – takes approximately 20 minutes A deep keyboard clean – takes approximately 1 hour Before you start, you will need a number of Items, all of the below items are available from our on-line store.

• Can of compressed Air
• Lint Free Cloth
• Computer Clean Wipes
• Small flat head screw driver

As you will see from the below guides, cleaning keyboards can take up a lot of your valuable time. If you would like for us to send somebody out to your office to clean your keyboards, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We can clean the following equipment

• Server Cleaning
• Keyboard Cleaning
• Telephone Cleaning
• PC Cleaning
• Computer Screen Cleaning
• Printer Cleaning
• Photocopier Cleaning
• Fax Machine Cleaning
• Mobile Phone Cleaning

1) Guide to doing a Surface Clean of Your Keyboard

2) Deep Clean – for standard keyboard only (not laptop keyboards)

Some Notes

Please make sure the computer is turned off and the keyboard is unplugged before cleaning your keyboard

When removing the keys from the keyboard, please be very careful not to damage them. If you are unsure please contact us.

If you have questions please contact us.

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We have written our own brief guide to Zinc Whiskers in Data Centres, which can be downloaded. A Guide to Zinc Whiskers by Data Clean Europe
A couple of things to remember about zinc whiskers

1) They pose no health hazards to staff

2) The first thing you should do if you think you have zinc whiskers is not disturb the zinc whiskers

Zinc Whisker Testing

We offer a fast tracked zinc whisker testing service in the UK and Ireland . All results are compiled and tested by an independent third party laboratory.

If required we can also zinc whisker remediation services, this includes a managed raised access floor replacement.

If you would like to talk to us about zinc whiskers and zinc whisker testing, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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We are delighted to announce that all Irish Clean room standards based on the ISO 14644-1 range of standards are now available in pdf format from our Data Clean Europe Store
Keywords for this post

ISO 14644-1, ISO 14644-2, ISO 14644-3, ISO 14644-4, ISO 14644-5, ISO 14644-6, ISO 14644-7

Cleanroom Europe have a review of the Lighthouse Handheld Laser Particle Counter 3016, you can read the review here:
Lighthouse Handheld Laser Particle Counter 3016 Review

Penwell have just announced their Cleanroom Conference for 2008 in Stuggart Germany

Event details are as follows:

11-13 March 2008, Hall C2, Neue Messe Stuttgart, Germany.

Event website is http://creur08.events.pennnet.com/fl/index.cfm

If you know of any other cleanroom conferences in Europe in 2007 or 2008, drop us a line and we will add it to our list.

Regards
DataCleanEurope

Below is a quick guide to the number of air-changes required for each room classification under the ISO 14644-1 and Fed Std 209E

ISO 14644-1

Class 8 require 5-48 Air Changes Per Hour

Class 7 require 60-90 Air Changes Per Hour

Class 6 require 150-240 Air Changes Per Hour

Class 5 require 240-2480 Air Changes Per Hour

Class 4 require 300-540 Air Changes Per Hour

Class 3 require 360-540 Air Changes Per Hour

Fed Std 209E

100,000 require 5-48 Air Changes Per Hour

10,000 require 60-90 Air Changes Per Hour

1,000 require 150-240 Air Changes Per Hour

100 require 240-480 Air Changes Per Hour

10 require 300-540 Air Changes Per Hour

1 require 360-540 Air Changes Per Hour

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We thought a Dictionary for commonly used Cleanroom words and phrases might be useful to people. The definitions below are approved by the IEST

If you have other word or phrases or would even like to expand upon a definition please send me an email at UK@DataCleanEurope.com

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Next Generation at Digiweb Data Centre in Dublin

An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, T.D speaking at the Digiweb launch

At an event launched by An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, Internet Service Provider Digiweb made a number of significant announcements about developments at the company. Launching its state of the art Data and Network Operations Centre in Blanchardstown, the company revealed that it will be creating 200 jobs over the next three years.

Digiweb’s Managing Director, Colm Piercy, also announced that the company, which is celebrating its 10th year in business, would be continuing its expansion into new markets outside of Ireland and the deployment of new technologies including Ireland’s first 4G, always-on mobile broadband network. Further details on the announcements are available from Digiweb at www.digiweb.ie

An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, T.D and Omar Masri Network Operation Centre Manager (DIGIWEB)

There are some great discussions going on over at the Slashdot website regarding measuring Data Centre Performance & Efficiency with guys from Intel.

Data Centre Performance

http://intel.vendors.slashdot.org/vendor_intel/07/03/26/1329234.shtml

Data Centre Efficiency
http://intel.vendors.slashdot.org/vendor_intel/07/03/19/1457218.shtml

We are delighted to announce that our full range of floor cable grommets can now be purchased on-line from our new Data Clean Europe Store

A full guide to our raised floor cable grommets can be found here Raised Access Floor Grommets

Standard sizes available are:

• 46mm cable grommet
• 75mm cable grommet
• 102mm cable grommet
• 120mm cable grommet
• 127mm cable grommet
• 169mm cable grommet
• 209mm cable grommet

If you require a non-standard size we can have that floor grommet custom made for you, however due to tooling costs the minimum order is 500 units.

We can also supply custom finished such as

• Antique Bronze Floor Cable Grommet,
• Brass Floor Cable Grommet,
• Chrome Floor Cable Grommet,
• Satin Chrome Floor Cable Grommet,
• Black Floor Cable Grommet,
• Putty Floor Cable Grommet,
• Walnut Brown Floor Cable Grommet,
• Light Grey Floor Cable Grommet
• White Floor Cable Grommet

WE NOW KEEP THE MOST POPULAR STYLE OF METAL CABLE GROMMETS IN STOCK - YOU CAN SEE THEM HERE - METAL CABLE GROMMETS
If you have a particular requirement for a floor grommet, don’t hesitate to contact us by phone or email.

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