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huh?

you mean the new 4 button one?

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:27, archived)

yep.

same silly (pretty) shape as the other mice, but with buttons on the side - which you end up pressing all the time and accientally exposé-ing.

The mouse is the wrong shape for your hand, so you end up putting pressue on the sides to move it. When you do that you click the side buttons by accident. I have an ugly microsoft mouse, which i love. It fits my hand and I've *never* pressed any of 4 the buttons by accident.

but there you go. I love my g5 and my ibook though.

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pep, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:30, archived)

really? i haven't used it yet

thanks for the advice old chap.

i too have the white and grey 3 buton micrsoft one. ugly, but functional (unlike most M$ stuff which is just ugly.)

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:32, archived)

my other half has one

and seems to like it, but I actively don't. Try before you by perhaps.
(actually this mouse is *filthy* I should clean it)

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pep, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:33, archived)

my keyboard is a filthy mutha

haven't cleaned it for yonks

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:36, archived)

I believe

you can reconfigure what the mouse-buttons do. (I don't have a mac to check, but I'm pretty sure I saw a screenshot of precisely this.)

and microsoft make wonderful mice.

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robtoo is all out of gum, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:35, archived)

well at least they can do something right

(sorry, they're not all that bad. i really don't want to spark off 'the debate')

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:38, archived)

its only mice i don't like!

i used a pc for 6 months in a prev job, it was bollocks. Everyone who worked there had some app that made it look more like a mac. meh.

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pep, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:39, archived)

you probably can but

if you don't want to click the button, you don't want to click it, regardless of what it does.
(unless it would randomly wipe out a local kid every time i clicked it - that would be cool. They are all satans children round here)

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pep, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:38, archived)

true, but anyway

here: clicky

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:43, archived)

'other'

so the potential for randomy blowing stuff up *is* there...
/strokes chin

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pep, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:45, archived)

other= link to porn

_{or yes, possibly killing local satanic children...}

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:50, archived)

so make the

left hand pain-in-the-ass button for pr0n and the right one for local child killing and you're set! hell, maybe even add another button for beer delivery.

(Meta4, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:53, archived)

indeed

but am i right in thinking bouth pain-in-the-arse buttons do the same thing? on the config example they're linked to the same drop down menu.

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:56, archived)

not sure

cause the first thing i did was switch that odd bubbly looking mac mouse for the USB windows mouse i had for my craptop.

even if they DO do the same thing, why not make it so that the one button does all three. that way you get porn, beer, and one less annoyance all at once!

(Meta4, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:59, archived)

^ this

I`ve a wireless keyboard/mouse at home and those side buttons are a right pain in the arse, even just for the physical clicking when it`s been told "don`t do anything if I press you"

we should all get VR helmets and Power Gloves like Lawnmower Man

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Reckless_Rik, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:45, archived)

yes! yes!

(Zaza, Wed 24 Aug 2005, 9:52, archived)