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"Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change
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HOWTO for changing that red LED on your fancy-pants new optical mouse to blue - or, I suppose any other color. I think I'm fine with what I've got - although, the glass tops on tables does make using optical mice a pain there.
although, the glass tops on tables does make using optical mice a pain there.
Rub some sandpaper over the part of the glass where the mouse will be. Problem solved!
Cool! I myself wanted to write a long FAQ about how to do an analogous thing for traditional mice. i.e. how to use a whiteboard marker to change the ball to match your decor.....but got bogged down by technical details...perhaps someone can help me...
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I think I'm fine with what I've got - although, the glass tops on tables does make using optical mice a pain there.
I thought I was fine with what I had too, until I got a glass tabletop... and started working without pants. Now I just cry every time I look down.
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Aw, MAN! And I was just getting caught up on all of my ridiculous case modding and converting my Geo Storm into a Geo Storm "Type R"...
(Like Heston) Damn you. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
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How many Slashdot'ers does it take to change an LED?
Answer: The ISP hosting the site is about to find out....
If you can move your mouse to a precision of 700nm, I'm very impressed :-)
The faint glow of a red light while looking at pr0n just seems natural.
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Yeah, that would be smart. All over the world geeks would be getting major sunburns on their right palms.
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Goes with the friction burns on their left palms.
Oh well, Karma suicide for a good joke....
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Yeah, that would be smart. All over the world geeks would be getting major sunburns on their right palms. :P
Thereby ruining their sex lives.
That is a sooo very typical White Trash solution. Good god, howtacky can you be? Hope you were just kiddin, otherwise I pity you and the trailer park from where you hail.
Of course I was kidding, but you just gave me an idea. I can put the red LED's in the eyes of the pink flamingos out in my front yard...
Every time I see one of these articles, this one in particular, it reminds me of the blokes who spend thousands of pounds to put UV tubes under their cars
However, the main difference I can see between the two is that when the car modders have finished, they drive around town and OCCASIONALLY some girl stops, thinks its cool, and gets in with them, while mouse modders can only use their accomplishment to click on "sign me up" for yet another porn site
A blue LED doesn't help me get any work done. Sure, it may look cool and impress chicks, but even cooler would be an ALL KNOWING, ALL SEEING MOUSE, that wouldn't rely on me to push it around the mouse pad to get work done. It would do all the work for me because it would be that smart. And I would fall asleep during working hours.
It would be pretty damn good at playing quake as well, much better than me.
If I could find a mouse like that, well heck, then it could have a blue LED. Until then though, only red for it, until it gets smarter and starts doing some damn work for a change instead of just sitting there until I push it.
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
Sith (evil programmers) use the red ones. Blue, green and now purple are used by the good guys :)
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How cool is an optical mouse with apparently NO light?!?!
;)
About as cool as a 20 year old Sun optical mouse
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In other words, this article is: Slashdot - How to Change a Lightbulb!
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Matters not, whether you can see it.
Red, it is.
Feel it, you can.
Blue, it must become.
The force is not strong with you... Much to learn you have.
Of course you need the cool mousepad with the mouse for the Old Sun Optical Mouse.
I remembered when someone told me about the "New" Microsoft optical mouse. at the time I was working on a Sun Workstation in the computer lab, and he was talking some junk on how inovative MS is. So basicly I turned the mose over that I was working with and showed him that it didnt have a mouse ball. Then I told him that this particular mouse is about 6 years old. Luckaly that shut him up and I was able to get to work.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
go down so fast? This site is shutdown temporarily due to the slashdot effect.
I suppose "extreme" could refer to minimum.
Hah. That's nothing. I overclocked my mouse sensor to 10x. Of course, my palm is occasionally injured by the blades of the cooling fan, but I found the extra precision is useful for negotiating a bloody mousepad...
Or for repairing a broken duck.
Personally, I prefer using DUCT tape for most applications, including removing warts. Doesn't work all that well for taping ducts, though.
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