[X-Newbies] Re: hopping windows and buffaloed routers

[Rodney A.Hoiseth]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 06:42, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Rodney A.Hoiseth wrote:
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>> I had posted the same question to the MacWizards list and one of
>> the Wizards made a suggestion that sounds right, but I haven't
>> followed up on it yet: He suggested it might be the scroll wheel on
>> my mouse, (even though he had no way of knowing I had a two-button
>> mouse with a scroll wheel...) The jumping is similar to the
>> movement produced by the mouse (a Kensington "Mouse in a Box").
>
> That would be my guess.  Try a different mouse and see if it goes away.

Curiously enough, it has stopped doing it. (Is there some corollary to 
Murphy's Law in there? ;-)
If it starts up again, I now know where to look first for the solution.

>> Somebody has pointed out that the firewall built into OS X is
>> probably all that's necessary anyway.
>
> That would work, but its usually more convenient to just configure
> the router once rather than set up a software firewall for each
> individual computer. That way, you don't accidentally forget to
> configure a new computer, or have to worry about whether any software
> update might change some settings.

Good point.
Thanks again Steven.

RAH