The mouse is sensing the vibrations you cause when scooting your chair back.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected] > wrote: > Setting anxiety aside, to address the non-EMI possibilities: > > I am running Ubuntu 16.04. I use the drop-down menu entry "suspend" to > suspend. The keyboard is about 1 foot from the front edge of a very heavy > wooden desk. My hands are on the arms of a wheeled chair on a hard-wood > floor. The return from suspend occurs when I rise from the chair. > > I just ran an experiment. I suspended the computer. Got up carefully and > went to the kitchen for 10 minutes. Came back, sat in the chair, then got > up. It came out of suspend. I did not even touch the desk. I claim > either EMI or gremlins. > > -Denis > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On 02/21/2018 10:54 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > > > >> I assume this is due to static electricity creating some sort of > > >> disturbance. > > >> > > >> I have an AST usb keyboard. Keyboard presses are what normally wakes > > the > > >> computer. Moving or clicking the mouse does not. > > >> > > >> Although this is but a minor annoyance, I would like to figure out > what > > >> part of my system is responding to what I assume are electromagnetic > > >> waves. > > >> > > >> Ideas? > > >> > > > > > > It's the anxiety sensor. I first learned of these from John, a > technician > > > at Prime Computer back in the late '70s. Every summer we would get a > crop > > > of new engineering graduates. They would often get frustrated when > trying > > > to boot up an machine in the lab. The tech told them it was the anxiety > > > sensor. The machine can sense when the operator is anxious, and will > > > respond by refusing to work correctly. John would then calmly walk up > to > > > the machine, flip the front panel switches a number of times, and the > > > machine would boot up. The new engineers would always gawk in awe of > this > > > super tech. > > > > > > > John sounds like a wise technician. It is a shame that his talents were > not > > able to save Prime Computer. Perhaps if he had spent less time bragging > to > > the newbies, the company may have stood a chance at surviving into the > > modern era. I suppose marketing was always their strong point though. > > > > > > As for the question that was asked, there are a number of reasons why > this > > could happen. Your keyboard is registering input, I doubt there is EMI > > involved. If you are sure you aren't the one hitting the keyboard, then > you > > might have a sticky key, or the suspend feature is struggling for some > > reason. Suspend/resume, if thats what you are using, can behave > differently > > from one motherboard to the next. > > > > Perhaps you are using a keyboard shortcut to sleep the machine, and are > > experiencing the side effects of hardware failure? I bet Doctor Who would > > want to know more about the specific circumstances surrounded this odd > > problem. But of course Doctor Who wasn't able to save Prime Computer, so > we > > can do this without him. > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > > > > It's the anxiety sensor. I first learned of these from John, a > technician > > >> at Prime Computer back in the late '70s. Every summer we would get a > > crop > > >> of new engineering graduates. They would often get frustrated when > > trying > > >> to boot up an machine in the lab. The tech told them it was the > anxiety > > >> sensor. The machine can sense when the operator is anxious, and will > > >> respond by refusing to work correctly. John would then calmly walk up > to > > >> the machine, flip the front panel switches a number of times, and the > > >> machine would boot up. The new engineers would always gawk in awe of > > this > > >> super tech. > > >> > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
