[thechat] OT - Cuz nobody's yakking ON-topic

Morgan Kelsey morgan at morgankelsey.com
Mon May 24 12:19:52 CDT 2004


RonL asked:
(nagrom has an aversion to RonL emails, because they're all so fargin funny)

> The terminally h-ware illiterate one here has a few techie questions
> (blind helping the blind here - my brother in law's laptop has a few
> issues I'm trying to help with):
>
> (1) When an external mouse is plugged in, sometimes the cursor just
> ... kinda ... meanders off ... by itself ... and can be a very tough
> little doogie to rope back in.

well! i have a laptop that does this as well.
the trick is to wait to plug the external one in until after the OS has
booted.
some mice, it doesn't happen with. my logitech one is fine no matter.
my microsofty one requires the trick above.

hth.

by the way ron, how does this sound:
i'm gonna sell my house and by one of those big 8-man, 3-room tents.
we'll locate in beautiful texas, in the yard of well, how about you!

you and i can build a trash-incinerator-to-electricity device,
and then i can help you get rid of all your paperbacks! whaddya say?


nagrom



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