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On Saturday 15 November 2008 22:55:06 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that |
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> the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. |
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> Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and |
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> forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per |
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> second). The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can |
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> wake up at seemingly random times. |
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> One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use |
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> it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce |
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> lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off. |
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> Another solution would be to buy another mouse |
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Yes, this is the best and only thing you could do |
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> , but this would cost |
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> money |
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So? mouses are cheap. I can buy mouses for the price of a packet of smokes or |
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two beers... |
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> and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest |
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> again in the future, with this or another computer). |
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So how you gonna fix this? You have a broken mouse, it sends broken signals to |
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the machine and the machine reponds brokenly. Here's the only lesson you |
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should learn (becuase this can't be fixed): |
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This mouse is broken. It doesn't do what mouses should do. Mouse, meet |
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dustbin. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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