Re: Cursor mysteriously moves all by itself
- From: -rwxrw-r-- <nostop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:30:56 GMT
On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:35 pm, McGrandpa had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>
> "-rwxrw-r--" <nostop@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3L6Xe.509892$s54.413694@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Saturday 17 September 2005 09:07 am, Carey Frisch [MVP] had this to
>> say
>> in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>>
>>> Make sure you do not have a microphone enabled.
>>>
>>> Download and install the latest drivers for your video card and mouse.
>>> If the problem is not corrected, then:
>>>
>>> Replace your mouse with a new one. If that does not solve the problem,
>>> replace your video card with a new one.
>>>
>>
>> And when you've reached the point of getting tired of spending your hard
>> earned money as Mr. Frisch so easily suggests you do, look at using a
>> real operating system. I do and never experienced something like a mouse
>> pointer
>> moving by itself. You're not sitting in the middle of an active
>> earthquake zone are you? If not, I can only assume it's part of the
>> wonderful Windows eXPerience, because I've never heard of anyone outside
>> the Windows world complain about this type of problem.
>
> then you haven't run most of the Linux distros available for Free
> download!
> Oh, I've located and downloaded the ISO you reference for ELive. Will
> burn
> and try that dvd today.
It's a CD not a "dvd". In any case, you might have some fun with it. :-)
> I have a LOT of experience of trying and failing
> to get the odd or even common hardware drivers to work in dozens of
> distros of
> Linux.
Sorry, but I haven't had that unpleasant experience. All of my hardware on
all of my computers work fine. In many cases better than they do on my
Windoze box, hence the reason that of the 6 computers I have, 5 run
GNU/Linux of one distribution or another. The only pieces of hardware that
has caused some problems are wireless NICs that don't have native Linux
drivers. But using Ndiswrapper allows a Windows driver to be run. Unlike
with Windoze, an installation of GNU/Linux provides one with full driver
support during the installation (not to mention hundreds of applications)
without the need to go searching after the install for hardware drivers and
hours of work loading (and rebooting the OS) from additional vendor CDs.
The real icing on the cake is that once Linux is installed and running
nicely with all your hardware, it just keeps on doing so. None of this
silliness that fillup this newsgroup of situations where "my computer has
started to run slower and slower" or "my computer won't boot" or "go into
Safe mode and run this that or the other malware sniffer" or "why won't my
computer shut down" or "I just got the latest Windows update and now X no
longer works" or "I changed some hardware and now have to re-activate" or
"my mouse pointer is moving by itself".
> I started with Slackware 1.0 many years ago and have been at it
> with
> both Windows and Linux ever since.
Well if you've been doing it "ever since" you must appreciate how
wonderfully GNU/Linux has evolved to the desktop.
> Now I'm going to level with you:
> you're coming off as a FanBoi and some number appear to have killfiled you
> already.
Not nearly on the scale of the FanBozs that belong to the MickeyMouse Fan
Club here. Like you they continue to spread their FUD, even though they
have not successfully run Linux on their computers so that they can
appreciate just how powerful and wonderful an operating system it is.
> You haven't been completely honest with your representation of
> Linux.
> Here's another thing: You CAN download a "free" version of every major
> vendors distribution of Linux. However, it will NOT be the full stable
> package.
What a load of crap. On my main Linux box I run Mandrake/Mandriva. I have
access to ALL of the open source packages available at no cost and it is
the stable release. The same applies to Debian that I run on another box.
OK, one could maybe argue that one has to purchase RedHat or can use Fedora
for free. The latter has more packages available and is in constant
development with newer features, so maybe not as "stable" as RedHat that
has its released dates spread out much more. But Fedora is stable on a
magnitude far beyond XP for stability and it doesn't cost anything. Nor is
anyone forced to run the latest version.
> If you want that then you'll spend almost as much for it as you
> do
> XP Professional retail. Those vendors have to make a living too, right?
In most cases Linux distros are free. If you purchase a distro you're doing
it not because the purchased version is any better than the free version,
but because the purchased version will come with support from the
distributor and in some cases proprietary software and a printed manual.
Anyone prepared to roll their own, can get a stable GNU/Linux running on
their systems at no cost. The distros available now are generally easier to
install than Windoze. Because Windoze comes pre-packaged with an OEM
license, the end-user is forced to go to the manufacturer for "support" and
we all know how futile that support is. Their answer 9 out of 10 times is
re-install the OS. If an OEM user goes to MickeyMouse for support, the
costs of ownership rise very very quickly! What does MickeyMouse charge per
support call now? You do the math.
>
> No
> problem with that. Be adventurous, get the free download and figure it
> out
> for yourself! OR, spend the dosh and let their "retail equivalent" take
> the hassle out of it for you.
> Or just buy XP Professional retail :)
>
And leave your computer open to worms, viruses, trojans, spyware,
instability, lack of useful programs (unless you purchase third-party
applications) and stupid things like mysteriously moving mouse
pointers. :-) No thanks!
--
Now this is Eye-Candy! Most beautiful desktop in the world.
Checkout ELive - a live Linux CD - run E17
http://www.elivecd.org/gb/About/index.html
.
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