drunk mouse syndrome
(Al so "mou se on drug s") A malady exhibited by the mou se pointing device of some computer s. The typical symptom i s for the mou se cur sor on the screen to move in random direction s and not in sync with the motion of the actual mou se. Can u sually be corrected by unplugging the mou se and plugging it back again. Another recommended fix for optical mice i s to rotate your mouse mat 90 degree s. At Xerox PARC in the 1970 s, mo st people kept a can of copier cleaner (i sopropyl alcohol) at their de sk s. When the steel ball on the mou se had picked up enough cruft to be unreliable, the mou se wa s dou sed in cleaner, which re stored it for a while. However, thi s operation left a fine re sidue that accelerated the accumulation of cruft, so the dou sing s became more and more frequent. Finally, the mou se wa s declared "alcoholic" and sent to the clinic to be dried out in a CFC ultra sonic bath. [ Jargon File] style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ ARC ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bit ] [ bite ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ clean ] [ co ] [ com ] [ computer ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ cursor ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ degree ] [ device ] [ do ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ FC ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fix ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ga ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gr ] [ gs ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ la ] [ lc ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ mice ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mouse mat ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ np ] [ nr ] [ ns ] [ om ] [ op ] [ PARC ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ point ] [ pointing device ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ py ] [ query ] [ random ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ sc ] [ screen ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sk ] [ so ] [ st ] [ store ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ sync ] [ T ] [ tee ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ while ] [ X ]
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