Cyber-exorcism?
Nov. 14th, 2008 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjMy laptop is possessed. Not the new MacBook -- the work laptop that I brought home to crunch through my Big Project Report this weekend. (Nobody asked me to -- it was just taking so long to get everybody's contributions formatted consistently that I figured I'd better do it on my own time, since I was the only one who cared about the report being "pretty". Well, I'm the only one who admits to caring, anyway.)
Now, I've used this laptop in undocked form before and it's never been this weird. I have a Word document open and it's as if random commands are being clicked without my taking action. The view switches randomly between page-view, normal-view, and outline-view. The paragraph I'm working in gets spontaneously changed to a new stye format ... or gets turned into a bullet point. Pull-down menus pop open all by themselves. A new blank document appears. And this stuff wasn't only happening when I was typing and mousing -- it happened while I was just sitting there with my hands not touching the machine.
Odd. Very odd. I finally gave up, saved the key files off on a thumb drive and moved them over to the MacBook. If I'd known I was going to have to do that, I would have just brought them home on the thumb drive in the first place. (I'd prefer not to have work files on my personal computer on general principle, which is why that wasn't my first choice.) Well, it'll make it easier to get the work done since I won't have to deal with the little joystick-nub thingy on the work laptop.
Now, I've used this laptop in undocked form before and it's never been this weird. I have a Word document open and it's as if random commands are being clicked without my taking action. The view switches randomly between page-view, normal-view, and outline-view. The paragraph I'm working in gets spontaneously changed to a new stye format ... or gets turned into a bullet point. Pull-down menus pop open all by themselves. A new blank document appears. And this stuff wasn't only happening when I was typing and mousing -- it happened while I was just sitting there with my hands not touching the machine.
Odd. Very odd. I finally gave up, saved the key files off on a thumb drive and moved them over to the MacBook. If I'd known I was going to have to do that, I would have just brought them home on the thumb drive in the first place. (I'd prefer not to have work files on my personal computer on general principle, which is why that wasn't my first choice.) Well, it'll make it easier to get the work done since I won't have to deal with the little joystick-nub thingy on the work laptop.
