[Eug-lug] keyboard equivalent?

[erock23175 at aol.com]

 If I were aware of that little hardware glitch I'd be alright. Otherwise my responses would be much less civilixed! lol
 
 -E
    
 -----Original Message-----
 From: nparker at lyl.llx.com
 To: euglug at euglug.org
 Sent: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:06 PM
 Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] keyboard equivalent?
 
  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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