On 09-Nov-2014 12:31:31 Mark Rogers wrote:
Either I have lost the ability to type or something else is going on. I'm finding characters swapped around in tetx that I ytpe (that's been happening all the way through this email but I left those in to demonstrate).
Seems to be mostly in Chrome (I'm using Gmail to send this). Seems a particular issue on my Ubuntu laptop, but also happens on my Kubuntu desktop. Don't see it elsewhere.
Thoughts? It seems very bad today. Chrome is also running like a dog despite CPU and memory looking OK in htop. I tend to assume that characters go into a keyboard buffer and out in the same order no matter busy the PC is?
Seems particularly bad around spaces, eg lik ethis.
-- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG
You have peolpe infecting your keyboard. These are small organisms which randomly swap connections.
My favourite case of peolpe-infection: I once received, via an email list, an advert for a post in the University of Bumringham.[*]
[*] Diagnosis: one instance of swap of keyboard-adjacent letters, one instance of swap of consecutive letters.
Ted.
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