I'm.so. kicking myself right now, trying to think of the brand... I've seen a joystick that I'm pretty sure is the one you're talking about at Best Buy as well as other stores [we had them at target Once, as well]; billed as something like "the world's most customisable joystick". I dunno, I'd be inclined to believe it; you should see this thing...
Also, in response to both the joking "disability discrimination" and "leftie mouse?:(" threads, I'm forced left handed [despite, my parents believe, a natural tendency to right-iness] by a slightly disabled right hand, and as such have used mice left-handed all my life. I also tick fellow computer users off, because i do so on the more convenient side of the keyboard [the left], which does incidentally alleviate the "off center keyboard" thing... hrmm...
but i digress [habitually]. First, I've never understood the urge to flip the mouse buttons. I tried it briefly, back when I started on win3.1, but between conformity and convenience, it just didn't seem worth it. Maybe I have an exceptionally dextrous [dactrous? heh, sorry] middle finger, who knows? But, then I use the middle for left click, the index for both right click and wheel/middle, and the mouse held between ring and thumb...
Secondly, [and this is getting way too long for a mousepost] I've always Really Liked the microsoft ergo-mouse shape, for some reason [this inexplicability is becoming a theme, isn't it?]; come to think of it, the shape of those mice might be partially responsible for my odd finger positioning today. Whadyaknow. But I always kind of let the "lump" hang out under my ring and pinky fingers... maybe it gave better grip that way...
Anyways, the handedness did play a part in my last mouse purchase: as the intellimouse explorer has extra buttons only on the left side, I chose the intellimouse optical, which has them fairly balanced left and right. Now all that remains is getting X to natively support the extras as buttons 6 and 7 in usb mode, which might be as simple as upgrading to 4.higherhthani'vegot
Again, longer than the topic deserved... maybe I should have made it 4 separate posts, heh.
I don't know whether that's the acronym or not, but I'm pretty sure I ran across that program. Fractal data compression on the order of 100:1, almost as quick as pkzip, [this was around '93, I think...I was young and naive then:( ] and all of this by way of simply indexing the "compressed archive" to the existing larger file, and padding it with random info. Soo.... if you deleted the old file, poof, no more working archive. And that's, I think, where tzanger got the "bad sectors" thing; rather than giving "hey, you deleted the file I needed to 'restore' your archive" as an error message, it spat some hoopla about file corruption and bad disk sectors.
God, that's way too much information on such a tidbit. I.did. get hit with this sucker, though, and it did teach me to trust the "wondrous technology" a little less, and use a little more common sense.
I just hope it's more informative than it is off-topic;)
Off the main topic, I know [sorry], but has anybody gotten this one working with all.four. buttons in X? I've got one w/ a PS/2 connector, and it seems to support three of the four buttons, if I start X with "ThinkingMousePS/2" [another 4-button kensington meese], and then switch to plain "PS/2" as the protocol, in the Pointer section of XF86Config. 'Course, what I actually did might not all have been necessary. [and there might have been a warm boot in there somewhere] Bottom line is I'd like to have at least three of the four buttons working consistently, if that's possible, and any info'd be appreciated.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah... I was about to say "Shame on you!" at first; I misread your last line as
;)
> Sure it's piracy, but try it out. It's much better than WTS
because it's damn sure one or the other
I'm .so. kicking myself right now, trying to think of the brand... I've seen a joystick that I'm pretty sure is the one you're talking about at Best Buy as well as other stores [we had them at target Once, as well]; billed as something like "the world's most customisable joystick". I dunno, I'd be inclined to believe it; you should see this thing...
:(" threads, I'm forced left handed [despite, my parents believe, a natural tendency to right-iness] by a slightly disabled right hand, and as such have used mice left-handed all my life. I also tick fellow computer users off, because i do so on the more convenient side of the keyboard [the left], which does incidentally alleviate the "off center keyboard" thing... hrmm...
Also, in response to both the joking "disability discrimination" and "leftie mouse?
but i digress [habitually]. First, I've never understood the urge to flip the mouse buttons. I tried it briefly, back when I started on win3.1, but between conformity and convenience, it just didn't seem worth it. Maybe I have an exceptionally dextrous [dactrous? heh, sorry] middle finger, who knows? But, then I use the middle for left click, the index for both right click and wheel/middle, and the mouse held between ring and thumb...
Secondly, [and this is getting way too long for a mousepost] I've always Really Liked the microsoft ergo-mouse shape, for some reason [this inexplicability is becoming a theme, isn't it?]; come to think of it, the shape of those mice might be partially responsible for my odd finger positioning today. Whadyaknow. But I always kind of let the "lump" hang out under my ring and pinky fingers... maybe it gave better grip that way...
Anyways, the handedness did play a part in my last mouse purchase: as the intellimouse explorer has extra buttons only on the left side, I chose the intellimouse optical, which has them fairly balanced left and right. Now all that remains is getting X to natively support the extras as buttons 6 and 7 in usb mode, which might be as simple as upgrading to 4.higherhthani'vegot
Again, longer than the topic deserved... maybe I should have made it 4 separate posts, heh.
John Moriarty
I don't know whether that's the acronym or not, but I'm pretty sure I ran across that program. Fractal data compression on the order of 100:1, almost as quick as pkzip, [this was around '93, I think...I was young and naive then :( ] and all of this by way of simply indexing the "compressed archive" to the existing larger file, and padding it with random info. Soo.... if you deleted the old file, poof, no more working archive. And that's, I think, where tzanger got the "bad sectors" thing; rather than giving "hey, you deleted the file I needed to 'restore' your archive" as an error message, it spat some hoopla about file corruption and bad disk sectors.
.did. get hit with this sucker, though, and it did teach me to trust the "wondrous technology" a little less, and use a little more common sense.
;)
God, that's way too much information on such a tidbit. I
I just hope it's more informative than it is off-topic
Off the main topic, I know [sorry], but has anybody gotten this one working with all .four. buttons in X? I've got one w/ a PS/2 connector, and it seems to support three of the four buttons, if I start X with "ThinkingMousePS/2" [another 4-button kensington meese], and then switch to plain "PS/2" as the protocol, in the Pointer section of XF86Config. 'Course, what I actually did might not all have been necessary. [and there might have been a warm boot in there somewhere] Bottom line is I'd like to have at least three of the four buttons working consistently, if that's possible, and any info'd be appreciated.
billnye@tmbg.org