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From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Jul 2010 13:01 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > It's a literary reference, innit. To an utterly unreadable book. -- Peter
From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 20 Jul 2010 15:08 >> To my mind, apple have never made a good mouse, and they are getting >> worse. > I'm not sure that they have never made a good one. The earlier oval > single button one was pretty good, but I do like a right click too... The only one I've really liked was the one on the Mac Plus. Big, cuboidal, and heavy. Everything since has cramped my hands from the extra muscle tension needed to get it into the right place. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile: 07800 739 557 <http://www.campin.me.uk> Twitter: JackCampin
From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Jul 2010 15:50 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: [snip] > FWIW, I really like the MightyMouse I got. Yes, the ball does get sticky > from time to time, but it's an easy job to clean with some alchohol > cleaner and a lint free cloth (I use lens tissue). Organic solvents like alcohol have a tendency to wash plasticizers and other mobile chemicals out of `polymer products', shall we say? Don't do it too often, eh? You can damage the material of the mouse ball. Any time I've got a mouse ball to wash, I use Fairy liquid and warm water with *clean* (as in freshly washed to get the grease away) hands to do the washing. Then lint free drying. If I were you, I'd not use alcohol to clean anything made out of plastic or rubber unless I knew it was okay with alcohol. Fairy liquid and warm water works well on most things. Heavy soiling and you might want to use Persil instead, but if so: protect your hands with barrier cream. Rinsing especially in hard water areas: it's worth putting a drop or N of washing up liquid into your rinsing water - just a bit of surfactant action to give good wetting for good rinsing, sounds odd but it works. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 20 Jul 2010 15:58 Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> To my mind, apple have never made a good mouse, and they are getting > >> worse. > > I'm not sure that they have never made a good one. The earlier oval > > single button one was pretty good, but I do like a right click too... > > The only one I've really liked was the one on the Mac Plus. Big, > cuboidal, and heavy. Not all /that/ heavy, actually. Nor cuboidal if you ask me. I suppose I should weigh my mice to compare, but I really cannot be bothered. > Everything since has cramped my hands from > the extra muscle tension needed to get it into the right place. I do find that the need to keep my hand so low down to use modern mice is awkward compared to the comfortable height of the original Mac mouse. It's not so much muscle tension as things just not being able to be in a comfortable position because the bloody thing's not quite big enough. And while I do have hands that are a bit larger than average with fingers that are a bit longer than average, it's not like I've got huge hands or anything, just ordinary fine slender aristocratic appendages[1], really. <shrug> They built the old mice for real men. Nowadays, they're built for schoolboys. Good shot here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mouse> ADB 1 or original - those are my faves. Rowland. [1] What? What? Oh, you think that I actually *believe* all of these colourful asides[2] I stick in? Is that why so many of you idiots go around calling me mad? I suspect so. [2] Don't take 'em literally, take 'em as indications. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 20 Jul 2010 16:32
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:01:18 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> It's a literary reference, innit. > >To an utterly unreadable book. I wouldn't know, I've never read it. I absorb these references by osmosis somehow. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Heisenberg may have slept here" |