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2006/08/17
 18:47:19

Computer Reboots When Mouse Moved

Incident - Computer Reboots When Mouse Moved

And you always thought those Windows screenshots of that were a joke...

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By schdav on 2006/08/18 at 09:23:48

I've run into that before. It's pretty funny. In the case I ran into it was just a bad USB mouse. I properly disposed of it. There may have been some urban cowboy type action involved. I believe when I was done with it only the LED and lense remained attached to the cable, which then got strung up on the ceiling tiles in the workroom to further shame it.

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By Jeremy on 2006/08/19 at 00:45:52

I believe that was the cause of this one as well. Or at least the mouse driver - I think a reimage fixed it, but I only glanced at the Incident.

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By babada on 2006/08/18 at 09:43:36

Ha, that is awesome.

Say, whatever happened to the Bethel webcam? Is that still running somewhere?

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By Jeremy on 2006/08/18 at 09:52:17

The construction one? They took that down when construction ended...

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By babada on 2006/08/19 at 18:30:33

Yeah, that one. When "they" took it down, where did "they" put it?

And are there any other Bethel webcams? Unofficial ones suit me fine. :)

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By Jeremy on 2006/08/19 at 18:32:53

Actually I don't know where that is. My guess is in a storage closet somewhere. As for unofficial, last time we did that we got a note from the VP saying not to do it again without approval first. So none of them right now. I want to ask about putting something up, just need to figure out one where it'd be good but without any people close before pitching the idea.

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By BGerdin on 2006/08/18 at 15:08:48

I'm going to blame that one on Austin. He must have had SOMETHING to do with it.

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By Austin on 2006/08/23 at 11:30:49

Sure blame the intern. Oh wait, I'm not even an intern there!

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By fismat on 2006/08/22 at 13:44:09

Weirdly enough, we've had no fewer than three seperate computers--all in Admissions, which seems to be an entirely useless coincidence--that have experienced this issue. It's annoying as heck because by all rights it SHOULD be a hardware problem, but the only solution we've found is reimaging. Changing the mouse doesn't work. Updating the drivers doesn't work. If I see one more of these bloody incidents, I'm going to snap.

On your other topic, we actually had an unofficial PCStudent webcam for about three weeks this summer, available on (of all places) the Anime Club web site. Unfortunately someone higher up in the system found out about it and made us take it down... ah, such is the sweet agony of being a powerless PCStudent...

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By Jeremy on 2006/08/22 at 14:25:41

I like how you ended up finding this while trying to resolve your problem.

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By JoeBuck on 2006/08/29 at 10:24:20

I miss outside.its.bethel.edu, that was the best.