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413. Microsoftness

By Joel Jacobsen

Since post 412 my PC has made two more trips to the ER.  The docs couldn't find anything wrong.  I've begin to worry they think I'm a psychosomatic complainer, or worse yet afflicted with a computer version of Munchhausen's by proxy syndrome.  The basic symptom is that plugging in the iPod makes the mouse stop working.  That's a problem when you run (or try to run) a Microsoft operating system entirely dependent on that miracle of anti-ergonomic design, the computer mouse, for basic functions.  The techs called me up and asked me to bring in those two components, but they were unable to recreate the problem on the bench.   Their best guess is that yet another USB device – the keyboard, printer or scanner – somehow interacts with the iPod to disable the mouse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).