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
