[Eug-lug] keyboard equivalent?

[Ben Barrett]

You can still prank people's optical mice with a small piece of tape or
even a bit of sticky-note, of course :)

I thought those mice were cool, and at the time it was certainly an
innovation.  Look how far we've come, now we have some mice
with accelerometers, very mighty...

ben


On 2/19/07, LinuxRocks! <linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> I really hated those mice, they were terrible. I was a bit confused when
> the new opticals came out, and am happy they are nothing like the old
> ones! The old ones did have one feature, twisting the mice (rotate)
> worked real good for fine adustments.
>
> Tip: clean your optical mouse with a q-tip every few months... you may
> find it works better.
>
> Jamie
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:06:30PM -0800, Neil Parker wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] keyboard equivalent?
> > To: euglug at euglug.org
> > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:06:30 -0800 (PST)
> > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7]
> > From: nparker at lyl.llx.com (Neil Parker)
> >
> > Ben Barrett wrote,
> > >Has anyone tried an optical mouse under varying optical properties
> > >and conditions, for creative purposes?
> >
> > No, not for creative purposes.  However, it used to be possible to play
> > practical jokes with optical mice.
> >
> > Back in the Olden Days (the late 80's), some Sun workstations came with
> > with an optical mouse, but it wasn't like modern optical mice:  It
> > wouldn't work on an ordinary desktop or mouse pad, but required its own
> > special metal mouse pad that had a grid pattern printed on it.  The
> > pattern was directional, and the mouse would only work correctly if the
> > mouse pad was oriented in the proper direction.  You could really
> confuse
> > the next user of the workstation by rotating the mouse pad 90 degress
> > when you logged off.
> >
> > It didn't take me long to learn to check the mousepad orientation before
> > starting the GUI.
> >
> >                - Neil Parker
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