Fw: usb wierdness...way OT

["brian mulvey" <bdmulvey@earthlink.net>]

it would be really cool if it was the other way around..
clicking the mouse shuts off the leaf blower...




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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Stephen P. Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: usb wierdness...way OT


> > in light of the mac inquiries today and talk of firewire and usb...
> >
> > i thought i would share this little anomaly.
> >
> > at work, i sit near a window on the ground level.  i have 4 mac g4's
> > in my department.  occasionally, the landscape guys come by with
> > their mowers, leafblowers, etc.
> >
> > every time, one of the guys comes down the path outside my window,
> > with his leafblower.  This is a gas powered leafblower. and EVERY
> > time he comes by, the two g4's that are nearest the window have their
> > mice lock up.
> >
> > seriously.  all you have to do is unplug the mouse and plug it back
> > into the keyboard and you're off and running again (which took me a
> > while to figure out and stop doing hard reboots).  but it's the
> > wierdest thing i've ever seen from a mac.
> >
> > ahhhhh!  watch out!  here comes the leafblower!
> >
> > any tech heads out there willing to venture a guess?
> 
> Perhaps a cheap experiment would be to buy the fellow a new spark plug,
> gapped correctly.
>