[Novalug] laptop bluetooth mouse and builtin touchpad (Jon LaBadie)

Roger W. Broseus RogerB@bronord.com
Wed Nov 4 13:13:03 EST 2009


Jon,

I had the same problem on an EEE Pc touch pad. Just accidentally brushing
it would cause the cursor to jump and I'd end up with text in unwanted
places, etc. With Ubuntu (remix) I fiddled with the admin menus and found
a setting to disable the mouse pad. Can not remember where it was: I'd
have to wait until I get home to find the setting. If you can not, contact
me off-line tomorrow. With this approach, one would have to go thru the
menus to toggle the pad back on. Maybe there's a command line approach?

Curiously, the pad is more well behaved under Window$.
-- 
Roger Broseus
   RogerB@bronord.com
   www.bronord.com

>    5. laptop bluetooth mouse and builtin touchpad (Jon LaBadie)
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:44:22 -0500
> From: Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com>
> Subject: [Novalug] laptop bluetooth mouse and builtin touchpad
> To: NOVALUG <novalug@calypso2.tux.org>
> Message-ID: <20091104034422.GB29795@butch.jgcomp.com>
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> My Dell laptop has a touchpad type of builtin mouse.
> I use a separate wireless bluetooth mouse and never
> use the builtin mouse except possibly to link up
> the bluetooth mouse.
>
> However the builtin touchpad is still active and
> it is hyper sensitive.  I often brush it when typing
> and there goes the cursor.
>
> Anyone know a way to disable the builtin when the
> external bluetooth mouse is active and re-enable
> it when the link is dropped?
>
> Jon
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon@jgcomp.com
>  JG Computing
>  12027 Creekbend Drive		(703) 787-0884
>  Reston, VA  20194		(703) 787-0922 (fax)
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:14:39 -0500
> From: Rich Goodwin <Rich.Goodwin@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] confidential client info backup
> To: NOVALUG <NOVALUG@calypso.tux.org>
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> I use Carbonite for the corporate laptop.  Data is encrypted at their
> end as well.   They don't support Linux but Mac support is forthcoming.
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:39 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> Working from home, both my wife and I have working
>> agreements with several clients.  Obviously these
>> include "hold confidential info secure" and "non-
>> disclosure" clauses.
>>
>> I have no concerns about backups I make personally
>> and on my own medium.  But I have been wondering
>> about these backup services that store the backups
>> on their disks transfered over the internet.
>>
>> Has anyone considered whether this type of 3rd party
>> backups would constitute a violation of their client/
>> contractor agreements?
>>
>> Jon
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:02:06 -0500
> From: "Wayne Dernoncourt" <wayned@panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] confidential client info backup
> To: "NOVALUG" <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
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> Rich Goodwin
>> I use Carbonite for the corporate laptop.  Data
>> is encrypted at their end as well.   They don't
>> support Linux but Mac support is forthcoming.
>
> As I understand it, they can un-encrypt your data, as a
> matter of fact they do to send it back to you if you aren't
> on your "normal" computer.  At least that's my limited
> understanding.  I don't think Amazon S3 does, I'm not sure
> what clients are available for that, again from my
> understanding, they provide the storage but not the means
> to put anything there.  For Windows, someone wrote Jungle
> disk(???sp???) (I have no experience with it, just heard
> about it).
>
> --
> Take care  | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
> Wayne D.   | supply this, at least not directly
> Here's my 2 cents worth, got change?
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:52:02 -0500
> From: Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] confidential client info backup
> To: NOVALUG <novalug@calypso2.tux.org>
> Message-ID: <20091104125202.GA3743@butch.jgcomp.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:02:06AM -0500, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>> Rich Goodwin
>> > I use Carbonite for the corporate laptop.  Data
>> > is encrypted at their end as well.   They don't
>> > support Linux but Mac support is forthcoming.
>>
>> As I understand it, they can un-encrypt your data, as a
>> matter of fact they do to send it back to you if you aren't
>> on your "normal" computer.  At least that's my limited
>> understanding.  I don't think Amazon S3 does, I'm not sure
>> what clients are available for that, again from my
>> understanding, they provide the storage but not the means
>> to put anything there.  For Windows, someone wrote Jungle
>> disk(???sp???) (I have no experience with it, just heard
>> about it).
>
> Rich, Wayne,
>
> Thanks for the comments about available services.
>
> But I was more interested in the legal considerations of
> putting client confidential information in the hands of
> a 3rd party.
>
> Jon
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon@jgcomp.com
>  JG Computing
>  12027 Creekbend Drive		(703) 787-0884
>  Reston, VA  20194		(703) 787-0922 (fax)
>
>
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>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:59:27 -0500
> From: Joseph Brinkley <brinkley.joseph@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] confidential client info backup
> To: Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com>
> Cc: NOVALUG <novalug@calypso2.tux.org>
> Message-ID:
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> Can give it to me :)
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:02:06AM -0500, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>> > Rich Goodwin
>> > > I use Carbonite for the corporate laptop.  Data
>> > > is encrypted at their end as well.   They don't
>> > > support Linux but Mac support is forthcoming.
>> >
>> > As I understand it, they can un-encrypt your data, as a
>> > matter of fact they do to send it back to you if you aren't
>> > on your "normal" computer.  At least that's my limited
>> > understanding.  I don't think Amazon S3 does, I'm not sure
>> > what clients are available for that, again from my
>> > understanding, they provide the storage but not the means
>> > to put anything there.  For Windows, someone wrote Jungle
>> > disk(???sp???) (I have no experience with it, just heard
>> > about it).
>>
>> Rich, Wayne,
>>
>> Thanks for the comments about available services.
>>
>> But I was more interested in the legal considerations of
>> putting client confidential information in the hands of
>> a 3rd party.
>>
>> Jon
>> --
>> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon@jgcomp.com
>>  JG Computing
>>  12027 Creekbend Drive          (703) 787-0884
>>  Reston, VA  20194              (703) 787-0922 (fax)
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> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:26:03 -0500
> From: greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Open source DVR's
> To: Brandon Saxe <brandon20va@yahoo.com>
> Cc: novalug mailing list <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Brandon Saxe <brandon20va@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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>> How is the quality of the HD-PVR? It appears to be a pass-thru-like
>> device.
>> Does this mean I could potentially play a Blu-Ray movie from a PS3 on it
>> and
>> record it to disk for archive/transer later? It appears limited to 720p,
>> but
>> that's okay for me.
>>
>
> That should work, but I haven't tried it.
>
> Myth is really for recording and watching later. On the list, if you was
> about Watch TV, you get 'well, Myth is for recording to watch later....'
>
> It looks good to me, but I am watching on my computer and not on my TV
> from
> Myth.
>
>
>> I'm not a big fan of ripping these days as all the protection schemes
>> are a
>> pain to deal with. If I could just "play to file" that would be great.
>>
>>
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