mouse droppings

mouse droppings

(graphics, operating system, jargon)Pixels (usuallysingle) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen,producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has leftdroppings behind. The major causes for this problem areMS-DOS programs that write to the screen memorycorresponding to the mouse pointer's current location withouthiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do notquite support the graphics mode in use.

mouse droppings

(World-Wide Web, jargon)The client address recorded in aWorld-Wide Web server's log whenever a client connects to asite.

Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged inthis way but the potential for misuse of the information islimited.

[March 1996 Macworld, p260, Viewpoint article by Larry Irving].