19.042 diagnosis of mousey woes

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:49:32 +0100

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   [1] From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" (14)
                 <lisa_at_digitalmedievalist.com>
         Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad....

   [2] From: "Nico Weenink" <nweenink_at_xs4all.nl> (10)
         Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad....

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         Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:40:40 +0100
         From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" <lisa_at_digitalmedievalist.com>
         Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad....

>I have suggested to him that he exercise the mouse-pointer options in
>Windows XP (including the animation activated when you press the CTRL-key),
>but he would like to know if there's better. Any ideas?

Optical mice can behave very oddly when used on colored surfaces--I used to
have a mouse pad with little sample squares of "safe" html colors and their
hex codes.

When the mouse was "over" a red square, it went hay wire, sometimes
ca'using the cursor to appear to suffer from St. Vitus' ailment.

Lisa

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         Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:41:00 +0100
         From: "Nico Weenink" <nweenink_at_xs4all.nl>
         Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad....
Willard,
  >   >I am being driven to distraction by an otherwise admirable
  >   >Logitech Optical Mouse, which rushes off and hides in a
  >   >corner at the least provocation....
I had the same with my laptop, the mouse playing hide and seek. :-(
Is your friend working on a Dell laptop? This is a know problem with Dell
laptops, and the only thing you can do about it is to call Dell and let them
replace the mouse port.
Kind regards,
Nico.
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