On (Jumping to) Conclusions
I got this sweet new laptop to replace Paczi, my dearly departed HP Pavilion.
Oh, right. My laptop died. Succumbed to the fate of so many Pavilions -- electrical problems, issues booting, etc.
So I got a new one.
When you think you know a lot about computers, you tend to jump to conclusions a lot. My last LJ post uncovered a peculiarity: I couldn't CTL-select anything! The right control key seemed to work okay, but that's not the one I used. It worked okay for cutting, copying, and pasting, but woe to me if I wanted to select non-contiguous elements of a list. I thought that there was a physical defect with the key, and immediately dreaded having to return the machine when I just spent so much time setting it up.
It wasn't a defect.
The touchpad has a bunch of "interesting" features. (Must be a new-ish thing!) This one has "zones", which I found out when I discovered that slipping off to one side performed some kind of "zoom" functionality, and the other side was like a scroll wheel. But the touchpad wasn't marked as such. Looking at the setting, I saw that I could sort of adjust these zone -- or turn them off entirely.
I turned off the zoom functionality, and the CTL-select worked fine.
Go figure.
~Sean
Oh, right. My laptop died. Succumbed to the fate of so many Pavilions -- electrical problems, issues booting, etc.
So I got a new one.
When you think you know a lot about computers, you tend to jump to conclusions a lot. My last LJ post uncovered a peculiarity: I couldn't CTL-select anything! The right control key seemed to work okay, but that's not the one I used. It worked okay for cutting, copying, and pasting, but woe to me if I wanted to select non-contiguous elements of a list. I thought that there was a physical defect with the key, and immediately dreaded having to return the machine when I just spent so much time setting it up.
It wasn't a defect.
The touchpad has a bunch of "interesting" features. (Must be a new-ish thing!) This one has "zones", which I found out when I discovered that slipping off to one side performed some kind of "zoom" functionality, and the other side was like a scroll wheel. But the touchpad wasn't marked as such. Looking at the setting, I saw that I could sort of adjust these zone -- or turn them off entirely.
I turned off the zoom functionality, and the CTL-select worked fine.
Go figure.
~Sean