Disable laptop touchpad

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 01 February 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Particularly when it switches screens on you in the middle of a word, or 
> hilights the whole damned page, which is then summarily erased by the
>  next,  unstoppable in time, keystroke.  The English language at least, has
>  only about 1/3rd of the words in my 2 minute monologue when that happens,
>  which is probably just as well. :(
> 

Ctl-Z  is your friend in those cases.