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Recently, there was a discussion here about mouse buttons going bad very quickly.
Just stumbled upon this video[^] of a guy who also said he has to replace his mouse every 6 mos because buttons go bad so he built his own mouse.
Interesting explanation of the problem and solution.
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Dang he talks fast...interesting video though.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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Uhhh, every 6 months?!
Are his hands made out of concrete or something? Or is he buying his mice out of a $2 bin at the local grocery store?
I'm replacing mice every 5 to 10 years.
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He's a gamer.
Also, you are lucky that yours are lasting 5 - 10 years.
I've had some that the buttons last 1 year on and they've had little use.
I think it's possible that there was a huge batch of really bad switches that were used in mouses (mice) for a while and if you bought during that time you got ones that lasted very short time.
I have some trackball mice (logitech) have lasted 30 years of daily use. It's crazy!
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raddevus wrote: gamer
Gamers would use gaming controllers, rather than mice, isn't it?
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Anyone else having problems with CP today ( I know OG has) I keep getting
Unfortunately it seems that our error handling page has, ironically, an error. It's going to be one of those days
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, I've had the "error page error" page, complete with disturbing 3D-rendered Bob, several times so far this morning.
Looks like Chris picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue[^]! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He's holding a wrench in one hand and what appears to be a beer in the other.
Drinking on the job...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yes, me too - seems to right itself after a couple of refreshes
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Yes, I was about to post in the Bugs and Sugs forum about that.
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Yup, had that aswell.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? $"This is my signature:{Environment.NewLine}{_signature}": "404-Signature not found");
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On the plus side, it did reduce the amount of spam CP catches every day.
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So I need VS2015. I have a project using it on a secure server, and I need to replicate the dev environment. I do my search, I login, I get to the "Your Downloads and Product Keys". It shows me this:
"Visual Studio Community 2015 Not available 6/27/2016"
If it's not available, why prick tease me? And this is the company assuring me that all of the updates they push out are for security. Right.... then I get an ad "inclusion is innovation." Well that's useful - not.
Wow, so, I despise edge. Trying to download opera - the file gets dumped to "operasetup.exe isn't commonly downloaded..." and edge renames it to something bogus. I have to rename it to a .exe to get it to install. What drivel.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Interesting - opera has no issue finding the download.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: edge renames it to something bogus
Seems they broke something.
The download PDF option does work either, downloads a 0 byte htm.
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this does not look broken, it looks by design. Edge specifically indicates "not usually downloaded". It's just so trite.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Got a RC2014 system kit a while back but had problems getting it to work. The EPROM that came with the kit was programmed by the seller but for some reason, either; he sent the wrong chip or the chip he sent wasn't set up for the combination of boards I picked.
At any rate ordered some new UV EPROM's and programmed with the correct monitor program and voila have a system running CP/M 2.2.
So have been playing withe Z80 assembler, wow does that bring back memories.
The system uses a CF card as the disk system and somewhere along the line Turbo Pascal 3.0 appeared on it?
Haven't programmed in Pascal since early college days, circa 79. Surprisingly it's coming back pretty quick and am able to program some elementary stuff right off.
The hardest part is navigating in the editor, you get so used to using arrow keys to move around that I am constantly hitting the arrow keys instead of the control keys that do the actual navigation.
Anyway fun stuff and looking forward to future adventures.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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Great stuff? Funny how technology we "struggled" with years ago provides amusement and relief today. I have a DOS virtual machine, anyone want to run edlin?
Keep having fun, spice of life (after sex). 
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Don't take much to amuse an old fart like me.
Like I tell my SO, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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