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Re: Linux hardware handling BETTER than Windows

  • Subject: Re: Linux hardware handling BETTER than Windows
  • From: alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:37:34 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Ram <Ram0na@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:NI5zg.50624$1g.26167@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> alt wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
>> news:2212910.asOzrLecNP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> 
>>> __/ [ tbandrow@xxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 30 July 2006 16:15 \__
>>>
>>>> Have you unplugged a PS/2 keyboard or a USB mouse from your
>>>> computer, and then plugged them back in?
>>>>
>>>> What happens?
>>>>
>>>> Well, under Windows, this is sure way to have to reboot your PC. 
>>>> Even when replugged in, the keyboard remains out to lunch, and the
>>>> mouse pointer either disappears entirely or remains fixed, dead,
>>>> upon the screen.
>>>>
>>>> Under Linux, the reverse is true.   I plug the mouse back in, and
>>>> it works.  I plug the keyboard back in, and, it works.
>>> http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_814958.aspx
>>>
>>> ,----[ WORKAROUND ]
>>> | To work around this problem, restart your computer after you
>>> | reconnect the mouse or keyboard to the USB port.
>>> `----
>> 
>> The OP was writing about PS/2 ports.
> 
> Was he, I must be reading between the lines again " or a USB mouse
> from your computer, and then plugged them back in? "
> 
> Ram
> 

You're right.

Still shows how broken Microsoft OSen are.

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