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My Toshiba Satellite A305 Synaptics touchpad driver icon keeps disappearing from my Vista icon tray, and when it does my touchpad stops working till I restart the computer. There's nothing in the Synaptics Pointing Device help file to say how to turn the driver back on. It does say there's a Touch Pad Disable Zone function activated and deactivated by "touching the corner", but it doesn't say which corner and when I tried touching the corners nothing happened. Then I tried disabling and reenabling the touchpad with Fn+F9 and that worked - but the tray driver icon doesn't go away during the disablement, so the problem I'm having isn't simple disabling. Then I looked at the Toshiba support forums where there was a thread from someone to whom this happens after viewing YouTube videos; no solutions were suggested that were effective, including Fn+F9. It's a minor annoyance (mostly I use a mouse, but I use the touchpad too, to the point that when I'm at a desktop PC the lack of touchpad throws me), but it's an annoyance. How do I restart the driver without restarting the computer? Also, how do I keep this from happening in the first place?

The classical answer is sovereignty, Charlie

The accelerated class I'm in this half-semester is a multi-disciplined course for English, Philosophy and Economics whose premise is, basically, Nash was right when he said Smith was wrong - one of the first week's assignments was to watch A Beautiful Mind. In the last two weeks I've read Dickens' Hard Times and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (the non-accelerated version of the syllabus includes Death of a Salesman but I read that thirty years ago when I was a theatre major), and shorter pieces from Engels, Plato, Aristotle, Weber, Dante, fairy tales and the Old and New Testaments. Next week we have to watch The Matrix, which I disliked when it was in theatres just because I'd hit my tolerance point for adventure films where everyone wears black leather; in recent years I've thought I'd probably like it if I saw it again, and now I'll find out.

For this week we were to watch Oliver Stone's Wall Street. When Charlie Sheen asks Darryl Hannah, "What do you want?" I considered what my answer would be to that question, and this is what I came up with.

"A happy family, and to draw a cartoon every day which is read by people all over the world.

"Oh wait. I have that. Never mind."

Sela 3/4; Picard, the Doctor, Yar, Sela, Guinan; PG-14

Title: Sela 3/4
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: Picard, the Doctor, Yar, Sela, Guinan
Rating: PG-14 for violence
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises c.1991
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Paramount Studios. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Both Sela and Guinan told Picard that Sela's existence is Picard's responsibility, without explaining to my satisfaction why. And if I'm not satisfied, Picard won't've been. But how to investigate?
crossposted scarfman dwfiction trekfics crossing_who

( Personal log, objective-displaced stardate 36939.1: Trying if at all possible to avoid a predestination paradox at Narendra III while yet preserving Commander Sela's history, I witnessed several brutal prisoner executions. Unfortunately, Tasha Yar would apparently require some persuasion before she would cooperate in that history - for she seemed determined to be the next prisoner executed. )