Sunday, 29 January 2017
No Curser - well, me perhaps.
Sorry, readers, to have to report a further fault on my 'new' computer- the curser has disappeared. The engineer on 'Knowhow' has done various tests and tells me that the mouse is at fault. There are, he is sorry to tell me, no replacement mice in store, but he will order one for me, which should be with me within twenty eight days. Oh $£%^&**)(+_ dear me. I cancarry on blogging to some extent by scribbling on, and jabbing at, the screen with a finger, but it's a slow business
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for a few quid you should be able to buy a mouse locally off the shelf. Any brand will do.
I'm almost ashamed to report that I seem to have solved the problem meself. I reasoned that if the fault was in the mouse, I'd better have a good look at it. It is a chordless mouse, so I thought perhaps the battery might be at fault, but I found that underneath the mouse was a very tiny button, with on/off on it. Having found and read it (a two pair of specs job), I found it was pointing to 'off', and having rectified that, it now seems to be all working nicely. I hope that's done the trick. If it's still working in a week I might believe it.
I learned to type around 1960 on a 1920s upright Imperial (or Remington ???) typewriter, and technically, I'm still at about that level. Ho Hum.
P.s. Ann said she had some spare batteries of the right size, so I've put one of those in the mouse, and it seems even better behaved. I do think that if the 'expert' with whom I spent a while discussing the matter on the 'phone last night had suggested either of these two remedies, I'd then had put the matter right and thought "What a clever chap!", instead of "Dimbo!"
Trouble with high-tech expertise is that you forget the simple basics. (remember rifle-drill? 'Today will be naming of parts') and we start by naming the switch, on and off for the application of. Then we employ the switching on of the mouse thus deploying energy to it's circuits:-
I think my favourite typewriter was an Underwood, although I admired "cousin" Robert's 'golf-ball' device.
Hello Crowbard. Yes, wasn't that an ingenious piece of Victorian engineering.
P.S. ?
Indeed it was both ingenious and remarkable, which is why I remarked upon it. I believe I understated my admiration of it ~ I coveted it!
Post Scriptum.
While you are a fulsome and apposite rather than an habitual curser, the pointer on your screen is merely a cursor since it runs across the screen without blaspheming. (Though at a cursory glance it is easy to confuse them.) (confusingly c.f. courser, corsair, etcetera)
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