hi
this is a bit strange.
i am not exactly sure when it happend but for a while i used the mouse in the
console to cut & paste etc but it does not seem to be there any more. i just
cant use the mouse in console it is fine in X btw.
i cant think of anything i have changed but it is possible i may hove done
something to my config files somewere... is there a service that needs to be run
to use the mouse in the console??? any ideas
thanks
alex
running Mandrake 7
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see joke below ( i know this list isn't for jokes etc but i think this is
pretty funney sorry guys )
> >Subject: Microsoft slogan
> >
> >In a landmark decision, the Australian Commercial Practices Court today
> >ruled that Toyota is no longer allowed to run its advertising campaign
> >based on the word "Bugger". Explained Court spokesman Loof Lirpa,
> >"Some time ago Microsoft took out an injunction against the use of the
> >word 'Bugger' in Toyota's ad. It was argued that 'Bugger' had been
> >associated with Windows far longer and far more deeply than with Toyota's
> >utes."
> >
> >Lirpa went on to suggest that every Windows user in the world uses the
> >word at least once a day as a direct result of using Windows. "No other
> >product has ever achieved that degree of market recognition and for
> >Toyota to muscle in on it was clearly a breach of commercial etiquette
> >and, ipso facto, copyright."
> >
> >Microsoft is now planning a media-wide campaign using their
> >catch-word. A copy that has been leaked to us shows several familiar
> >faces:-
> >
> >Steven King is shown saving the last page of his new 800 page
> >blockbuster in Word and then re-opening it to find that it has been
> >reduced to three smiley faces and half a dozen Japanese
> >characters. He smiles wanly at the camera and says "......"
> >
> >Kerry Packer is shown shaking his head knowingly and muttering "....."
> >when he discovers that the spreadsheet on which he based his latest $4
> >billion takeover has suffered from the notorious
> >Excel "four sevens are thirty six" feature and that the Ayer's Rock Hot
> >Pie Company is somewhat overvalued.
> >
> >The head of the CIA (with his faced pixillated) is shown shouting
> >"....." on finding that Outlook has just e-mailed the entire contents of
> >his hard drive to the head of the KGB. She, in turn, says "byugyah"
> >when the file is found to be in last year's Access format.
> >
> >A spokesthing for Microsoft commented, "This is a logical move for the
> >company that used "You make a grown man cry" and "The damned and
> >accursed are convicted to the flames of Hell" as
> >advertising slogans for its software. We anticipate establishing the
> >slogan in the marketplace by including a t-shirt printed with "Bugger
> >Microsoft" in every box of our software."
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