And I thought I was wierd because I always rotated the mouspad before I
used it. i just liked it better in the wrong orientation.
-Mike
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree,
is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals.
We cause accidents. --- Nathaniel Borenstein
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 23:06 -0800, Neil Parker wrote:
> 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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