Just when you get technology working something breaks. For me it's usually an OS crash and all I need to do is spend a few hours reformatting. I almost enjoy it at this point. But this weekend was different. Friday brought the demise of not only my favorite mouse (intellimouse 2.0), but also my sub-woofer. (sigh) The mouse had died after many a-year of service and I was very excited to get a new one as mice must have made usful advances inside of 4 years. (or so I thought) So I went and found an intelli-mouse 4.0 which is much the same except it has a niffty tilt-wheel action on the scroll wheel. Whoopeee! I was excited for about 36 minutes. That's the time it took to get it back home and plug it in. It has two major design flaws.
1-The middle mouse button (also known as the scroll wheel) is super stiff. So much so I didnt think it was a button at first. Making it relatively useless.
2-The normal vertical scrolling action is equally useless. I actually have to do a warm up scroll before it realizes im trying to scroll. That is real annoying and in-game it is much worse. Makeing this mouse no-good for gaming and barely capable for regular use.
I tryed to look for a fix online but realized I was up the creek. As if that was not enough I then go to turn on my speakers and, wouldn't you know, I have no bass. THe speakers are working, but not the sub-woofer. Ok, I will not get on my soapbox about the poor quality of computer sub-woofers...I will not get on my soapbox about the creation of crappy mouse craftmanship.
(Deep breath, Goose-Frah-Bah....)
Don't think I'm going to bother getting another sub. Just a good pair of normal speakers this time. =P
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Technology Bleh!
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"Whoopeee! I was excited for about 36 minutes."
Haha I know how that is!! Hope your mouse situation works out. I just have a plain logitech optical mouse (its the white one which costs about 20$). I like it a lot and the scroll button is perfect. It doesnt have any extra feature of than the two normal button, wheel, and middle wheel button click. But I reccomend it, maybe it could be a cheap replacement if you decide to go that route.
Indeed. The good news is I "fixed" my speakers (fixed meaning I plugged it in the rest of the way.) and the mouse is starting to beark in a bit. Still not a great buy though.
I took your advice on teh logitec as well. Though I didn't so much buy one as borrow a spare from work. ;)
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