Re: geography nerds?

Nate Edel wrote:
> Tim Merrigan <tppm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Dormer) wrote:
> > >And I'm still not sure whether it's that device which is messing up
my
> > >optical mouse, causing my cursor to jump suddenly, or for the
> > >right-click menu to be suddenly displayed for no reason.
> >
> > I don't have a cordless phone, but I do occasionally get my optical,
> > though not wireless, cursor bouncing all over the screen.  I assume
> > it's something, dust or whatever, interfering with the laser sensor.
>
> That sometimes happens to me if I use a current optical mouse on a
> too-reflective surface (the old-school Sun optical mice, IIRC, required
a
> special semi-reflective surface covered with dots.)


On my work lap top my mouse sometimes acts like our new puppy.  It
will be just sitting there then all of a sudden runs around all over
the place before settling down.
As I'm running multi monitor I sometimes have troubling finding it,
the mouse not the puppy, puppy usually goes back about to the place
she started.

Nels

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