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! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:06:30 -0800 (PST) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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