h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...scroll left...

(curses)

...scroll right dammmmmit...

(curses some more)

...aaargh...



Time for a new mouse, methinks.

My mouse recently snapped off at the bit-that-plugs-into-the-back-of-the-computer (excuse the techinical terms). Advantage of a laptop being that I can use the touchpad anyway.

This one is a pain in the butt. It's like it needs to *warm up* in the mornings...it's fine now. However it wasn't an hour ago.

Yes, the university's got a few of them...

Does it need cleaning? My lodger is forever taking his mice to bits and cleaning his balls : the balls from the mice that is... Apparently it helps

*removes his balls from a mouse, polishes them, and inserts them back into the mouse*

Ah yes, far better.

is it the ickle mouse which nis the problem?

I find it helps to scrape all the crud off the little rollers with my fingernail. I also keep the mouse's feet clean. I have s mouse mat with a wristrest at work and it seems to help - it keeps your hand off the surface of the mat so you don't get so much crud on it. I'm not suggesting you've got dirty hands, but dead skin and oils from the skin all go to bung your mouse up.

If you're getting a new one I can recommend the ball-less optical ones - the ones with a red light underneath. I have one at home - it's cool - just keeps mousing.

I got a mouse without balls. It still needs cleaning though. For a start tiny fibres/hairs can get in the way of the red light and make it think the surface is somewhere else.

I got an h2g2 mouse mat. I used it for less than a day. It was awful. The mouse wouldn't move properly at all (and it didn't feel nice under my hand either). It was hard enough navigating the screen but it nearly ruined one of my CA graphics by making the mouse jump around. I had to revert back to my previous setup in order to get anything done.

*StupidMouse is being an asshole and working properly now*



Just to be contrary.

Is someone suggesting I have dirty balls?

RIGHT!!! RIGHT!!! RIGHT - oh, what's the use?

[Commences to use geeky keyboard shortcuts.]

- Jordan

I reccomend that you all wash your balls in alcohol!

Those of you without balls may watch from the sidelines.




(I am of course referring to optical mice.

...mmm...optical wireless five-button scrollmouse...

It makes sense that the optical mice would watch from the sidelines.

My mouse is an optical scroll-wheel mouse; However - don't be fooled; If you get Pepsi inside it, it will still break.

Mouse = working now.

Same here, the pepsi has long since dried, and the opticals are working again - but in anger I sorta broke the scroll wheel, so it's now just a glorified middle-button.

Ah well.

my intellimouse explorer gave up any hope of working properly a few days ago, so now I have two optical mice on my desk - and then it started (sort of) working again. I need a new USB cord.