Re: "Stuck keys"

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 01:29:28PM +1200, Kathinka wrote:
> Anyway, back to the main story.  Every now and then I'm writing something -
> usually in a blog, something online rather than in, say, LibreOffice - and
> it's like a key sticks.  On and on it goes,
> eitherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr like that or even
> more annoying, I hit delete and instead of taking out a typo it steadily
> demolishes word... sentence... paragraph.

Ouch! Seems like it's not the keyboard as it only happens sometimes and
with different keys? Although, it would be a good idea to try another
for a while to rule out any strange fault in the keyboard.

Is the system sluggish before it happens, and/or is the disk drive light
constantly flashing? I'm guessing that the keystrokes aren't registering
initially but then the system "catches" up they and all register at once.

You should try and narrow down the problem and see if it happens with
different software. One idea, is to try a different browser for a while
when you are editing your blog. You may not use your WP often, but to
try and diagnose the problem, I personally, would be using as much
different software as possible to narrow the problem down as much as
possible.

If this problem is intermittant, then you have one of the worst kinds of
faults to deal with, and only a patient systematic approach will yield
any useful results. You have my deepest sympathies.

It doesn't happen when you're emailing anyone? (Presuming you're using
thunderbird or equivalent - i.e. not webmail via browser.)

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who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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