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WCDT 4131-4135 (Nov 11th-15th, 2019)

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Wingy:
Having written a TSR that captured KBD input, among other things, I've had to debug a "keyboard driver".  Twasn't fun...

Thrudd:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Nov 2019, 18:50 ---That was usually reserved for Macs back in the day.

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My experience is usually M$ doing weird things or just plain torpedoing things like the RT9450 Microsoft Keyboards which I STILL get requests for after all these years because people still use them and love them.
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Not mine.
Mine is in the tech office and is a whole lot grubbier  :-P

cybersmurf:
Every now and then there's a decent piece of MS hardware for a good price. I had one of those Microsoft five button mice for years, replaced it once it started double clicking randomly. Think it was called intellimouse optical, and it was silver.

DSL:

--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 19 Nov 2019, 09:58 ---
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 19 Nov 2019, 09:42 ---But sometimes it really is a problem with the driver software for the keyboard.
Try keyboard pilot error instead.

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Isn't a pilot basically a glorified driver?

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I have heard that USAF ground crew definition of "pilot" is "person who pushes buttons at random until something of significance happens."

Scarlet Manuka:

--- Quote from: DSL on 21 Nov 2019, 05:06 ---
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 19 Nov 2019, 09:58 ---
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 19 Nov 2019, 09:42 ---But sometimes it really is a problem with the driver software for the keyboard.
Try keyboard pilot error instead.

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Isn't a pilot basically a glorified driver?

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I have heard that USAF ground crew definition of "pilot" is "person who pushes buttons at random until something of significance happens."

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So you're saying it is a good metaphor for the typical computer user, then.

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