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

[johngalt1]

>> > Except she had an XP password.  Which meant typing to
>> > start
>> > Windows...except no keyboard...ARG.

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 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] A drop-dead funny Windows story...


> 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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