Post by Killer on Jan 15, 2004 6:57:57 GMT -5
By Ray Merriam
Noticed your desire to get a wireless keyboard/mouse. I also like having no wires cluttering up an already cluttered desk! Last winter I bought the Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard and Mouse combo, specifically for the computer in my living room, as I have very limited desk space there as you can imagine. Works fine (except that they go through batteries like there's no tomorrow - usually a week of use, using them maybe 2-3 hours a day; so I now have one of Durocell's 1-hour rechargeable battery devices; incidentally, the regular Durocell batteries last the longest in this particular brand of wireless keyboard/mouse).
So, I liked it so much I decided to get the same thing for my main office computer, said office being upstairs in the room just above my living room. Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I started having strange things happen on my main computer - I would be downstairs, but my upstairs computer would be performing some chore (printing a large file, downloading a large demo off the Web, etc.). When I went upstairs to check on the process, I found all kinds of different windows and dialog boxes open, programs running, folders open - one time an entire folder with dozens of subfolders and several thousand files (TIFFs and JPEGs, primarily of military photos I have scanned for my business) had been completely copied to another folder on a different drive). Scary stuff, right?
This went on for some weeks, and I was thinking someone must be hacking my computer (I have DSL but I do have a firewall and all the rest of the protection one needs to help prevent such skullduggery).
One night I went upstairs to check on the printing of a large file and then had to do a little work for about ten minutes. I had also been working on my downstairs computer while the upstairs one was printing. When I got back downstairs, I discovered the same proliferation of open programs, files, etc.! Eureka moment ensued: the signals from the wireless keyboard on one computer were being picked up by the other computer and thus all sorts of crazy stuff was occurring!
Since that night, about three weeks ago now, I no longer run both computers at the same time and have not had any recurrence of those ghostly events on either computer.
Just a little food for thought - and a bit of a warning when you get your wireless keyboard, should you decide to have more than one computer with such devices.
Text from Lockergome
Noticed your desire to get a wireless keyboard/mouse. I also like having no wires cluttering up an already cluttered desk! Last winter I bought the Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard and Mouse combo, specifically for the computer in my living room, as I have very limited desk space there as you can imagine. Works fine (except that they go through batteries like there's no tomorrow - usually a week of use, using them maybe 2-3 hours a day; so I now have one of Durocell's 1-hour rechargeable battery devices; incidentally, the regular Durocell batteries last the longest in this particular brand of wireless keyboard/mouse).
So, I liked it so much I decided to get the same thing for my main office computer, said office being upstairs in the room just above my living room. Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I started having strange things happen on my main computer - I would be downstairs, but my upstairs computer would be performing some chore (printing a large file, downloading a large demo off the Web, etc.). When I went upstairs to check on the process, I found all kinds of different windows and dialog boxes open, programs running, folders open - one time an entire folder with dozens of subfolders and several thousand files (TIFFs and JPEGs, primarily of military photos I have scanned for my business) had been completely copied to another folder on a different drive). Scary stuff, right?
This went on for some weeks, and I was thinking someone must be hacking my computer (I have DSL but I do have a firewall and all the rest of the protection one needs to help prevent such skullduggery).
One night I went upstairs to check on the printing of a large file and then had to do a little work for about ten minutes. I had also been working on my downstairs computer while the upstairs one was printing. When I got back downstairs, I discovered the same proliferation of open programs, files, etc.! Eureka moment ensued: the signals from the wireless keyboard on one computer were being picked up by the other computer and thus all sorts of crazy stuff was occurring!
Since that night, about three weeks ago now, I no longer run both computers at the same time and have not had any recurrence of those ghostly events on either computer.
Just a little food for thought - and a bit of a warning when you get your wireless keyboard, should you decide to have more than one computer with such devices.
Text from Lockergome
