Re: Weird PC problem

["Burns, Bryan" <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I totally agree. I got rid of my wireless keyboard here at work.  The
batteries always went low when I was using it :-).  Actually I hated it.


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:02 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Weird PC problem

I like, no, love wireless mice.  I use ones that are either rechargeable
or run for months and months on a single AA or AAA battery.  Getting
that wire out of the way on something you move all the time is great.
And I've moved to rechargeable AA & AAA batteries to minimize expense &
waste.

But I've never seen the value in a wireless keyboard at a desk.  Run the
cable once & be dove with it.  The only time a wireless keyboard makes
sense to me is on a home theater PC.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tom Jedrzejewicz
<tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I don't like wireless keyboards .. they strike me as a needless 
> complication. Batteries are expensive (and toxic!), the support effort

> is probably 8 or 10  times the support for a wired keyboard, and the 
> need is illusory most of the time.  I have shied away from deploying 
> them. When you consider your time, the "convenience" of the wireless 
> device has become very expensive!
>
> John's suggestion (the keyboard language) is the most likely fix. But 
> you could use the opportunity to deploy a different wired keyboard!
>
> ---------
> Tom Jedrzejewicz
> tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chuck Lewis 
> <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > Yep it (the keyboard) was not consistently typing. These wireless 
> > keyboards love batteries...
> >
> > The fact that it's manifesting itself in software (some not all) is 
> > what is so weird. When this first started they said it was their 
> > keyboard but as I got more into it it's SOME of the software...
> >
> > Chuck
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Bob Crothers
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:46 AM
> > To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> > Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Weird PC problem
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Makes me wonder if the problem is NOT the keyboard but something on 
> > the machine.
> >
> > Why did the user change batteries?  Because the "keyboard" was doing

> > strange things?
> >
> > Bob
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