Silly question. should I turn my mouse keyboard off?

... or should I leave it on all the time like I've been doing. after reading misery posts about repairing, etc, I'm hesitant to turn it off because I might encounter some problem.

Hello Jerry:
There are few silly questions - answers, yes!
I leave both my wireless keyboard and mouse on all the time. If they are Apple, they go into a very low power mode a short time after they are idle.
I have seen nothing that indicates that battery life is significantly extended by turning them off.
Barry

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Hi community,
I used to work a lot with Cisco WLAN controllers. The last software I really tested was the last 4.2 release. But I still have a question regarding RRM, nobody was able to answer. Maybe some of you guys know it:
I'm never completely sure if I should take the risk of enabling RRM. I always set the channel and transmit power at fixed values. Here is why:
DCA (Dynamic Channel Assignment):
In theory, when an AP performs the RRM algorithm (default: every 10 minutes), and decides to switch the channel, how should an associated client know, that the AP plans to switch the channel. For the client point of view, it's like shutting down its AP, when the AP switches the channel.
With the latest Intel drivers, I recognized a connectivity loss of 5 - 15 seconds, until the client associates to another AP, or the AP which switched the channel.
The client cannot prepare for the roaming (channel changing) process. In the regulatory domain of ETSI (Europe), we have to use an altered standard for 802.11a (802.11h), which introduced DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection). Within this process, the AP has to change its channel, if it recognized radar in the 5 GHz band.
802.11h has some flags to inform the 802.11h capable clients, that the AP plans to switch the channel - so the clients have the chance to prepare for this event (roam).
Due to the connectivity loss for clients within DCA, I switched off that feature.
Did someone experience the same? Or is my theory totally bugged?
TPC (Transmit Power Control):
The only thing that concerns me, is when I attach something different than the standard 2,2dBi dipole antenna. When doing so, I am not allowed to transmit at 17dBm.
How does the AP know, that it isn't allowed to use the power value of 1 if a 6dBi antenna is attached? Does the antenna gain (0,5 x dBi) field in the AP settings work?
I never found something on CCO, stating this.
Again: Did someone experience the same? Or is my theory totally bugged?
Thank you for your help. I'm looking forward to this discussion :-)
Johannes

Hi.
Am 27.03.2015 um 13:17 schrieb Kirk White:
> I have updated my GroupWise system and questioning should I turn on SSL. It's
> my understanding the GroupWise has it's own encryption from client to server and
> server to server. Especially lately knowing that SSL has it's own set of
> security issues. So why would I want to turn this on?
It really boils down to what type of potential attacks you expect and
what it's ramifications would be.
You're right, Groupwise is encrypted end to end (except internet email
of course) by default. But that's not a documented, open encryption, and
nobody really knows how secure it is. It's most certainly secure enough
to stop an amateur hacker or someone just taking an occasion.
So you would want SSL (on top of it, BTW!), if that's not good enough
for you, and you want a known, open, documented encryption.
> If I were to turn this on, should I be using a commercial certificate and if so
> can it be a wildcard certificate?
It really doesn't matter either way, from a security POV. The
certificates aren't truly enforced (except by the user, which you can't
trust usually), so a man in the middle attack will almost always be
possible, unless you train your users not to click away certificate
warnings. Good luck with that....
And of course, you can still import the self signed certificate into the
client beforehand when you initially install it.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
Novell Knowledge Partner
No emails please!
http://www.cfc-it.de

HT4060 I can't find a definite answer anywhere regarding whether or not you need to turn the iPad mini off before charging. So my question is should I turn the iPad mini off or leave it on before charging? Thanks in advance.

I can't find a definite answer anywhere regarding whether or not you need to turn the iPad mini off before charging. So my question is should I turn the iPad mini off or leave it on before charging? Thanks in advance.

I rarely if ever turn my iPad off. I charge it when the battery is low or at night while I'm sleeping. Even then I close the Smart Cover and let it sleep but I do not turn it off. It doesn't matter when you charge the iPad.
The most efficient way to charge the iPad is to use the charger that came with it and plug that into a known good wall outlet.

Turning Wireless apple keyboard off.

This might be a very simple thing to achieve, turning the wireless keyboard off, but I don't seem to find information on how to do it. I have looked on instructions book, which recommends to turn it off when not using it and in old post with no success in finding an answer.
Please could someone help me? the keyboard seem to be chewing the batteries very quickly.
Cheers.
Giuliano2

Hello g:
Note in that article that the KB (and mouse) go into a very low power mode when not in use. I never turn mine off unless I am going to be away for a few days. Battery life is essentially a function of use, not turning a device off and on.
Let me suggest that you consider using rechargeable batteries. I use 2650 mAh Duracells and a 15 minute charger (available from both Energizer and Duracell). In that way, I am never without batteries and I do not throw batteries into landfills.
Barry

How to turn the mouse pad off

Hi
I have an HP envy and I do no know how to switch the mouse pad off. please can someone help. it has become very annoying because I don't really use the mouse pad and want to turn it off.
Please help

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Should i turn the zen touch off when recharging?? or should i leave it o

thanks.

You can either of the two.
If you go to settings you can turn idle shutdown time OFF, and that way your player will always stay on when you are charging.
Wheter or not you want it on is up to you...

Mouse & Keyboard off when reach login

Hi Msi fellows
i have a big problem
I have the MSI Z97 Gaming 3 that replaced the dead msi z87 G43 gaming. Today i put it together and when i switched on i made all BIOS options go default. when windows starts up in logo (WIN7x64) i lose keyboard and mouse.
can some one help me im starting to think my board as a problem like the last one

Hi,
What keyboard and mouse are you using (brand, model)?
Did you try to use USB2.0 or other USB ports?
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Should i turn the slider on my laptop to off on time capsule when I go on vacation

Should I turn the slider to "off" on my MacBook Pro, if I go on vacation?
I noticed that I get a message that tells me a backup has not been made for some time and then it does a full back-up.
Will off (when away for extended periods) be a good thing to do or not?

I noticed that I get a message that tells me a backup has not been made for some time
That would be normal.
and then it does a full back-up.
That would not be normal. Are you sure that it is doing a full backup? The backup may take a good deal of time if you have not backed up in a week or two.
Should I turn the slider to "off" on my MacBook Pro, if I go on vacation?
Yes

Turning off mouse & keyboard

I would like to know if there would be battery consumption on the wireless mouse & keyboard when the Imac is turned off.I see an off switch on the mouse & I do turn it to off.Not sure how to turn off the keyboard though,Will battery still be used when Mac is turned off?

Hi Don!
A couple of "bits" of information:
I've had this machine about 3 months now, and the battery level for the keyboard is still showing 100%. However, I've had to change the batteries in the mouse about a month ago, and it's now reporting 50%.
This is a problem (incorrect battery readings) that apparently started with OS X 10.6.7. The readings are consistently high. The problem has been reported and the "powers that be" are aware of the issue. I suspect a future release will take care of the incorrect reading issue. In the meantime, the "mighty monitor" widget that runs under Dashboard seems to have correct readings.
I have been using rechargeable batteries and a 15 minute charger (all obtained on eBay new at a reasonable price). I happen to be using Energizers (2450 mAh). Although the batteries do not last as long as Lithium batteries, the cost is less over a period of time. Rechargeables also are "feel good" as they are environmentally friendly.
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Barry
P.S. My mighty mouse does require batteries more often than my keyboard, although I suspect it is because I use the mouse a lot as I type VERY slowly.

Silly Question- PREVIEW - Leopard Rotating Pics

Silly question, but a little "bothersome" on this end.
Just upgraded to 10.5.4. In my previous OSX PREVIEW of pictures, if the pictures were rotated (from the camera), they showed up that way in PREVIEW and I had to manually rotate them. Now, Preview seems to show them in the proper position, but then when I send to family, they may be rotated in the wrong position. Some of my contacts aren't very computer savvy and don't understand how to rotate them on their own.
Isn't there somewhere in PREVIEW that I can turn off the automatic rotate so I can rotate them on my own.
I hope this is clear---it's a silly question, but solving it will make my life a little simpler!
Thanks!
job

The rotated picture business is bit confusing, so bear with me a minute.
When you shoot in portrait view your camera records everything the same as it does in landscape view, but adds a little digital note saying, in effect, "this picture is supposed to display in portrait." Some things can read the note, and some things can't. Both Finder and Preview can read the note and display the picture appropriately, Safari can't. If you want to see how those on other machines might see the picture, just drag it into an open Safari window.
Now--what to do. Because of the complaints of graphic pros the Mac OS no longer automatically applies the rotation to the actual pixels....you have to do it yourself. I usually do so in Photoshop, but if you use iPhoto you can EXPORT the photo, and then the rotation will be saved and the pixels altered.
If you want to use Preview try this:
1. Open the photo and resave immediately, in the "Save as..." dialog box you'll see a line with a check box under the format information, that says "Use Exif Orientation Tag"--uncheck the box and save.
2. Reopen the photo--this time it will display the actual state of the pixels, so it will be sideways
3. Rotate so it is in portrait view
4. Save again
If you drop the photo in Safari it should now appear "correctly" and will display anywhere and everywhere in the correct orientation.
Francine
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Turn Keyboard off?

Should I turn my Apple wireless keyboard off, or leave it on all the time?
Thanks,
"D"

Hello Dana:
A bit of additional information - the KB and mouse go to a very low power mode after a brief period of non-use. The KB batteries last quite awhile - mouse batteries are used faster. In my case, I use all rechargeable batteries (2500 MaH) and a charger from Energizer that recharges batteries in 15 minutes (environmentally friendly, too).
Barry

Windows XP and wireless Apple mouse & keyboard

Would like to install Windows XP to run just one program.
!) Will the Apple Wireless mouse and keyboard work with Windows XP.
2) Are the Windows XP programs on eBay legitimate to purchase?

I use the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and a Microsoft BT mouse with by MacPro desktop. They both work fine with XP as should an Apple BT mouse. As for question 2, I wouldn't trust them.

Can you use the browser and search the web by utilizing a speach recognition program instead of the mouse & keyboard ?

''locking as a duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/972710''
I would like to know if Mozilla's ( Firefox Browser) can integrate with and utilize a speech recognition program, I would like to have control of and be able to use all of the browsers functions while navigating the web using voice commands (only) ,instead of having to use a mouse & keyboard. If the browser does have that capability, are there any issues I need to be aware of and are there any tutorials or web pages Mozilla can suggest that will help with this.
Thanks in advance for answering my questions and for the information forthcoming!
Frank G

What is this speech recoginaziom program called? I need to know if I am to help you. Thanks Nathan.

Wireless mouse/keyboard intermittent dis-connects

In the last three days, I have looked at over 20 different posts regarding wireless mouse/keyboard disconnect problems. Thew fixes ranged all over the board and NONE fixed it. And, none of these problems matched mine exactly, except for one other. I too, have two iMacs and this problem has over the last few days gotten increasingly worse and irritating. Regardless of what you're doing, whether it is actual productive work, or playing a stupid game on your computer, when your mouse quits responding, and the graphic flashed on the screen "MOUSE DISCONNECTED", it irritates.
I think a senior apple tech finally pin-pointed the problem, at least for my two systems. It has nothing at all to do with Bluetooth or Wireless networking. I tried ALL of those fixes including resetting the SMC. None fixed it.
Here is what the tech had me do. Under System Preferences > Users & Groups > My Login, I then clicked on "Login items. I was astounded to see a list that exceeded the size of the window of "startup" programs that have been installed from iTunes Helper, to Dropbox to blah, blah, blah. You name it. He had me remove ALL of them except iTunes Helper. one item "Connect service (all users) could not be removed. However, as we later discussed, the specific item the I believe to be the culprit was "Bittorrent". I've forgotten what I downloaded that used that as the download agent, but in the future, I shall NEVER AGAIN use it for ANY reason. I also removed from the applications area, some non-used programs (that probably weren't the problem, but...), emptied the trash, re-booted and have not had the problem since. I want to stress here, that if your problem is actually Bluetooth or Wireless network related, this will not fix it. However, my mouse had gotten really molassesy in that when I would try to quickly move from one spot to another on the screen, it took some time to catch up, as if something else had control. That's what I think Bittorrent or someone trying to share one of my files was causing. I don't share my files. Period. I didn't realize that it could be subverted to that use of I wouldn't have ever used it in the first place.
Anyway, neither one of my iMacs has exhibited ANY of the former symptoms since clearing that list on each system. Turns out, my second iMac also had Bittorrent in the list. That's about the only thing the two have in common besides Yosemite 10.10.3. Maybe this will help, maybe it won't. I sure hope it does. Forums like this one are extremely helpful to me.

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I did this for the Generic USB Hubs, the USB Root Hubs, and the Reneasas...Hub. After that was completed, all USB ports started working immediately. So far, they are staying working but it has only been an hour or so. Will report back if this doesn't stick. Also, there may be a more elegant solution... but this works for now.

When I open the settings and messages of the iPhone 4s I get stuck in a white screen, what should I do? the keyboard to open there is minute, I can not open the settings in any way.

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