Re: Weird PC problem

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.


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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!

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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
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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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