Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-26 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Engle wrote: > > > text file. Oh, if it matters, the box is running RH 6.1, just wondering if > > anyone else had seen this problem before or knew off the top of their head > > how to fix it. > > It's about the repeat rat

Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread Sunnanvind
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Engle wrote: > my computer turned off, I can only assume my son (8 months old) had > inadvertently flipped the power switch, My computer was inadvertently off monday morning - the power cord wasn't in properly. You might've had a power failure - is the vcr clock blinki

Re: [techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread pete
> press the backspace key for every character. same for the arrow keys. I > haven't done a whole lot of testing, I don't know if it works similary for > other characters. The computer dual boots windows, but I haven't booted into If it does the same for all chars, I'd suspect that your keyboard r

[techtalk] Speaking of wierd computer problems

2000-01-25 Thread Brian Engle
I've been having some odd problems with my keyboard lately. It used to be, when I typed a long string of characters on the command line, or in a text file, and held the backspace key down or an arrow key, it would backspace until I took my finger off of the key. Saturday morning I came down to fin