Re: OT: My Keyboard Devil (was Re: z-value)

Bruce Weaver wrote:

Reef Fish wrote:

Reef Fish wrote:

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I masked my laptop keyboard with a credit-card sized plastic card
so that no part of it was exposed to my thumbs of any part of my hand.
Sure enough!  That seemed to have driven away my Keyboard Devil!

Sorry for bring up the OT topic here.  Perhaps others may benefit
from it.  The random jumping cursor seemed to be the result of the
combination of LAPTOP and Windows-XP.

-- Bob.



Is anyome making collapsible (USB) keyboards for laptops, like those for Palm pilots?


And would anyo_N_e believe me if I claimed that my typo was intentional (given that the thread is now about keyboard devils)? No, I didn't think so.

--
Bruce Weaver
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