From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 10 9:59: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from phaidor.thuvia.org (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1E237B40C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar-sojat.thuvia.org (dotar-sojat.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5AGxMm25402; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:59:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar-sojat.thuvia.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5AGx0676158; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:59:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:59:00 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200106101659.f5AGx0676158@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of Jun 10, 3:54pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), Chip Subject: Re: My cat crashed my BSD box Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) > Date: Sun 10 Jun, 2001 > Subject: Re: My cat crashed my BSD box > Chip writes: > > Here's a new one - this happened the other night. My cat likes to > > sit on my desk while I'm at my computer, which is fine, most of the > > time. Though she usually chooses the mouse pad as her favorite > > place to sit down, or lay down. She'll lay right on top of the > > mouse, sometimes even across the keypad part of the keyboard. I gave > > her an unused mouse pad to sit on, but she doesn't like it. > > Of course not. She's trying to get your attention, and she won't get > that by sitting on a mouse pad you're not using. Try teaching her to > sit in your lap instead. That solution doesn't scale well... Just make sure there are enough warm surfaces free around you (computer equipment is idea), the more elevated the better. I currently have two cats lounging around on top of one of my monitors. Though I get annoyed when tails and paws start obscuring parts of the screen I need to _see_! Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message