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Article #620530Re: testing new computer new isp
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:13
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:13
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On 2018-02-14, William Pechter <pec...@lakewoodmicro-fbsd-tor1-01.lakewoodmicro.com> wrote: > In article <PM0005652...@aca41411.ipt.aol.com>, > jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote: > >> Joy Beeson wrote: >> >>> On 13 Feb 2018 14:39:01 GMT, jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If I was stuck with a mouse, I >>>> would turn it upsidedown and use it as a track ball. >>> >>> I just tried that. All I got was a flashing red light on the wall. >> >> Kewl :-) I've never used an optical mouse. Does it work if >> you keep it upright and move the ball with your finger underneath? > > No ball... just led and opto sensor (or laser and optosensor). "An optical mouse has no balls and has to look at itself in a mirror to work." > They work great as long as the mouse is on a decent surface. If there's > any issues put a piece of notebook paper under the mouse. No special > optical mouse pad like the old days. If I need to do only a few mouse operations and have no flat surface, my leg works pretty well. Optical mice like denim. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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X-Received: by 10.28.237.21 with SMTP id l21mr676554wmh.32.1518632437839; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:20:37 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.223.145.3 with SMTP id j3ls3016807wrj.8.gmail; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:20:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.223.182.6 with SMTP id f6mr644729wre.32.1518632437241; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:20:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!n14ni37935wmi.0!nntp.google.com!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: testing new computer new isp Date: 14 Feb 2018 18:13:07 GMT Organization: NewsGuy.com Lines: 34 Message-ID: <p61u7j019de@news7.newsguy.com> References: <PM000564C8DF24E330@aca41494.ipt.aol.com> <PM00056518F3D21301@aca41e8e.ipt.aol.com> <95978d5nq0a3i6mak6hck87sgf6jrfslsb@4ax.com> <PM0005652D66EAA1C8@aca41411.ipt.aol.com> <p61tsj$k0s$1@pechter.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3dfd23436bfd47daf1f9d5a5f48d2e5005008d1fd5248308.newsdawg.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Received-Body-CRC: 2490470894 X-Received-Bytes: 2109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit