Tech!

[caddyman]

My keyboard is playing up a little since it was cleaned, but I am wondering if that has more to do with the batteries than the cleaning and that it’s just coincidence. A quick battery waggle seems to have cured it for now, so I guess that in the next day or so, I shall have to replace them.

Can’t complain, I guess. They have lasted far longer than the batteries in the mouse, which seems to eat juice like it’s going out of fashion.

Glyn is coming around soon to sort out our home network, we will probably ask him to look at Furtle’s machine specifically as it has lost the ability to burn or read DVDs. I have no idea what we did to make it do that, but it shouldn’t be too bad!

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Nothing worse than the batteries dying in your wireless kbd/mouse halfway through a WoW raid... :-)

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Try this...

o Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
o Click on the "Microsoft Fix-It" icon and follow the instructions to run the registry fix.
o Run a CD Lens-Cleaner (http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=CD%20Lens-Cleaner&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) in the system.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

and then ask why my puter should suddenly start foraging the internet and opening pages of its own choosing even though pop ups are blocked. My security tells me the puter is clean although I think it lies... Hmmm just realised that it hasn't done the page opening thing for a day or two now..

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Could be a virus, though if you have an optical mouse (as opposed to one with a ball) and the cursor itself was moving it may be that it was IR light (perhaps the sun) shining through the plastic/metal casing and confusing the poor thing. Same thing occasionally happens with remote IR devices, so remote IR mice are doubly vulnerable to that odd one-week period where building geometry and astrophysics conspire to ghost your pointing device.

If it happens again shield your mouse with your hand and see if it immidiately stops. Until then download something like Spybot to check for malware and run it.