Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mouse Misbehavin"

[LarryT (l02turner]

Hey Hans -
It must have been you that mentioned this before.  Yes, it is VERY 
frustrating to
have the cursor bounce all over the screen - as you know well.  The Printer 
is
probably the only common program on all machines - maybe I can reinstall it?
It'sa photo quality HP which has been trouble frrr for 5+ years.  Could not
find anything to complain about with it.   But as mentioned, it;s the only 
common
factor.
Thx to all others who had comments - even Steve J who was showing off!  ;-)

How compatible is Ubuntu?  Same ? for Linux and the other "off brands"? 
Maybe I'll
spring for a new OS and learn it.  Talk about fun. ;-(

Thx again -

LarryT

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans E. Hansen" <FList [at] hanshansen.org>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Mouse Misbehavin"


None of you guys addressed Larry's core problem.  Jumping mouse.

I have had this happen, but it was several years ago, and, well,
those beers that Ferrari Bubba bought me in Tucson erased the
exact cause.  It's really annoying.  You are trying to positon the
mouse *right here*, and suddenly it's on the opposite corner of
the screen.  And then it can kind of bounce around at random.

But it seems to me that it had something to do with some crappy
piece of software that I had installed.  Some sort of shareware
or badly designed "professional-ware".  Look at printer drivers,
network drivers, etc.  The mere fact that you have multiple
computers doing the same thing points to something common
like a printer driver that you are installing on all machines.

I used to be the caretaker of a small company network of some
30 odd computers running everything from Win3.1 to OS2 to XP
to 2000 to Linux.  Weird times, glad I'm no longer there.

Hans.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi gang-
> A while back a list member questioned why his mouse would jump to 
> different
> parts of the page he was on for no apparent reason. He was advised to 
> check
> and load any new drivers.
>
> Didn't mention it at the time but I had the same problem with the glide 
> pads
> on my laptops and traditional mouse on my desktop. Now, another laptop was
> bought Sunday and its glide pad does the same thing!
>
> Yes, I checked to be sure I have the latest drivers and that didn;t seem 
> to
> matter. Strangest of all was a new laptop doing the same thing!
>
> BTW, my new laptop has Vista which I am having trouble liking. I am
> considering reinstalling Vista to see if that fixes any of the problems I 
> am
> having or I may install XP and go back to the devil I know.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thx!
> LarryT
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