Posts by 82412

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

I've posted this before, but since it's all about mice and confusion:-

When my stepdad got his first computer it took him a couple of weeks to get out of the habit of moving the mouse up to try to make the arrow go down, and moving it down to make the arrow go up.

He had the best of all excuses - he had been the tailgunner in a Wellington bomber during the war.

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

When my stepfather got his first PC at an advanced age it took him 2-3 weeks to get out of the habit of pulling the mouse towards him to try to make the arrow go upwards and vice-versa.

Decades earlier, he had been a rear gunner in a Wellington.

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

When my stepfather got his first computer he had the mouse the right way round, but it took him a couple of weeks to get out of the habit of pulling it towards him to try to make the arrow go up, and pushing it away to make the arrow go down.

He was a mid turret gunner in a Lancaster during the war.

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

I was once called to a garage premises to look at a PC which would no longer start.

Inside it was absolutely spotless.

A very nice metallic bronze colour throughout.

It had been sitting in an office next to the spray booth for years.

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Updated one PC 26th June and had to download a fix to get my networked Brother printer to work.

Updated a second PC 1st July - uses the same printer - and no fix required.

'One rule for me, another for them' is all well and good until it sinks the entire company's ability to receive emails

..... and who hasn't had to deal with a user whose computer is telling him that Windows is no longer activated, just because he has never emptied his recycle bin?

US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink

Re: Ink bottles

Not really, what you have is refillable tanks attached to a printer which is only worth about 25% of the price you paid for it. Pathetically slow, poor quality, and it will only make economic sense in the unlikely event that it lasts for several years without falling apart.