[Tfug] A drop-dead funny Windows story...

[Jim March]

Yeah...better yet, what would a Linux user do who can't run the
Logitech win-app utils?  Run 'em in WINE!?  It's a "panel widget"
thingie (Windows version of that concept anyhow) and I doubt WINE
could cope.

Sheesh.

Jim

On 10/31/07, johngalt1 <johngalt1 at uswest.net> wrote:
> The story is mistitled. It should read:
>
> A drop-dead funny Logitech story
>
> If the keyboard would not re-sync without a booted windows
> OS, how could you get past the keyboard error?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim March" <jim.march at gmail.com>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:09 PM
> Subject: [Tfug] A drop-dead funny Windows story...
>
>
> > OK.  So I had gotten that panicky phone call from a client
> > saying on
> > boot, the machine was reporting "board failure". We talked
> > about that.
> >
> > I get there this AM, take one look and...wait.  Yeah, it
> > says that, but...
> >
> > This was an LCD set up for the 1024x768 resolution she
> > runs in
> > windows.  But on boot, it's 640x480.  So the text display
> > was a bit
> > "skewed" to the left.
> >
> > On a hunch, I reboot and rapidly hit the "monitor
> > frequency reset" on
> > the monitor.  Yup.  It was skewed to the left by three
> > characters.
> >
> > Anybody wanna guess what the three letters before "board"
> > were?
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > Some of you are giggling already.
> >
> > "Key".
> >
> > The batteries in her wireless keyboard had died.
> >
> > ARG!
> >
> > So forget all that XP/motherboard crap we were talkin'
> > about :).  BUT
> > the story goes on.
> >
> > With fresh batteries, I couldn't get the keyboard to sync
> > up to it's
> > RF base station - this was an aftermarket Logitech setup.
> > She had had
> > this problem years earlier and had a printout of a
> > Logitech tech
> > bulletin explaining the fix: the mouse will auto-sync OK
> > but you have
> > to go into Windows and use their control-panel gizmo to
> > sync the
> > keyboard.
> >
> > Except she had an XP password.  Which meant typing to
> > start
> > Windows...except no keyboard...ARG.
> >
> > So I drive home, grab my USB keyboard...
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Jim
> >
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