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Subject: A bad thing. (Sorry, this is a bit off topic.)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:21:02 08/29/99


I'm running Windows98, which is normally an OK thing. (Although I'd prefer to be
running NT...)  However, my mouse broke, and is no longer recognized by Windows.
 Until I can get a new mouse, I have to control Windows with keyboard only,
which I recently compared to drinking water from a sieve.  To make it worse, the
mouse pointer is still in the center of the screen, as if it thinks it can
perform some function other than obscure whatever happens to be behind it.
Needless to say, I can't play chess anymore against my computer except in text
mode.  I lose even more than normal! :P  Even tasks that should be simple
without a mouse, like writing a post here, are far more difficult than they
should be.

Anyway, the moral of this story is that one should always have a functional
mouse when trying to run any flavor of Windows.



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