On 03/30/2016 12:25 PM, Charlie Goodwin wrote: > Had a desktop computer with bizarre pointer behavior. The pointer would > jiggle at a frantic rate and would keep returning to the same place - off > center - on the screen. The computer was utterly unmanageable. After heroic > efforts I got a reasonably clean shutdown. > > Dual boot, Mint and W8. > > Being a newbie at the moment I brought it to a repair shop who told > me that Linux had attacked the Windows partition. I paid them for > their "diagnosis" and called another shop who were similarly baffled, > but asked one crucial question. "Are there any other USB devices > attached normally?" I started laughing, because I remembered that I > had - but had not been using - a touchscreen. The connector must have > been loose, producing a spurious signal, causing the manic pointer. > > I was considerably happier paying the second fellow.
I do like the idea of the OSes *attacking* each other, though. "Oh, I thought it was the Windows 8 *beta*--turns out I was running the *betta* releases of both OSes, and so trying to keep two of them in the same fishbowl proved fatal...." (Interestingly, a web-search for "siamese fighting linux" yields *no hits*! Maybe I'll start a project and call it that...) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> > To: "Ken D'Ambrosio" <k...@jots.org <mailto:k...@jots.org>>, Tyson Sawyer > <ty...@j3.org <mailto:ty...@j3.org>> > Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > <mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org>>, tyson.saw...@gmail.com > <mailto:tyson.saw...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:51:01 -0400 > Subject: Re: Mouse event problems > On 03/29/2016 05:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > I've been bitten by bad mouse problems enough times that when I see > > symptoms like yours, it's pretty much my go-to. I had someone in > > England call me some time back, and could *NOT* figure out her problem. > > Finally had her wipe her machine and start over... and it was still > > there. Which is when I realized she was using an external, wireless > > mouse, and had her replace her batteries. > > > > D'oh. > > *D'oh*: > > http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Coffee-Beats-Wireless _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
