Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:21:11 -0700 From: Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "double pump"?
At 9:22 AM +0100 9/10/04, walter wrote:Hi there,
17" FP 1.25GHz iMac, running 10.3.5, Airport 3.4.3f.
A few days ago I read somewhere on the 'net some guys discussing the (irritating) fact that sometimes OS X does not recognise a mouse click first time round. After reading that, I realised that it was indeed an experience that I had had myself.
I've observed the reverse on several Macs. If I click on a scroll bar it will jump down two screens. It only happens sometimes but it is never the less quite annoying. It only seems to happen in the scroll bar although that may just the most detectable situation. -- -- Clark Martin
I wasn't referring to scrollbar clicks. The need to repeat the click arises when selecting files in the Finder, or sometimes with menu commands. I'm afraid I don't remember the 'net forum in which the discussion I referred to took place (and someone used this term 'double pump'...), but basically it was pointed out that under OS X it can happen that one needs to repeat a mouse click because the system doesn't seem to have recognised it as such, for whatever reason. I wonder whether it has to do with virtual memory management. Maybe when switching between applications, although one application has been made active, there is a small delay before it can respond to commands. I have 768MB of RAM, but maybe a slight delay is inevitable. I'm not really sure. It doesn't happen to me often enough to detect a pattern. But the problem with the Aiport menulet is instead there alright. And it is annoying.
I found a thread on Macfixit discussing dialup problems after the 10.3.5 update. It's at <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040910080240174>. I did what they suggest, but the problem with the Airport menulet persists. In fact I've discovered there is a further bug. Often after waking up from sleep, or even after a fresh startup, if I try to connect via the menulet, I'll get the message that the modem is waiting to reset. The only way to get out of it seems to be to restart the Base Station.
If I connect/disconnect via Internet Connect instead, there seems to be no problem. It is slightly less convenient (even on a 17" screen things get hidden away...) but it seems far more reliable than the menulet. I still wonder why it shouldn't work properly. It's the one fly in an otherwise pretty cool ointment, that is, Aiport works really really well apart from this one thing, it has changed the way we use our home Macs. Hope they'll get it fixed soon.
Walter
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