Are you sure he wasn't holding the mouse upsider down?
Try turning your mouse around like that. If you can continue to move the cursor around without noticing that something is horribly wrong, well... I don't know... that would be amazing to me.
Try turning your mouse around like that. If you can continue to move the cursor around without noticing that something is horribly wrong, well... I don't know... that would be amazing to me.
Well, some of the stories here are pretty amazing to me. Referring to a window on screen as an ENVELOPE!?
There will never be a foolproof system: fools are too ingenious in their stupidity...
That said, I had a phone call just as I got home today from a friend who is a video editor at a major advertising company (bear in mind here, computer support is not my job) who had been going nuts all afternoon: turns out his company is submitting a showreel for a competition, but the organisers have insisted that submissions are supplied as MPEG-2 videos (no, I have no idea why anyone would insist on that).
So, he's edited it all together on the Avid (like I say, it's a major company) and dumped it out to Cleaner, made an MPEG-2, but he can't get it to play in Quicktime.
He's asked all the Mac techs there, and they're totally clueless, so, knowing that I'm something of a Mac geek, I get the call. About five minutes into the conversation, I asked him if he's got the MPEG-2 Playback Component installed... silence.
Ten minutes later, he called back, having bought and installed the component. Everything's hunky-dory.
At one time I was working in a hospital lab, as the mac nut I was asked to help out with a Plus with stuck floppy.
Armed with a paper clip I asumed to be victorius in a jiffy. Litte did I know
I found a disk solidly wedged half way in, and I saw an other disk in the drive
I asked the user how this came about (she had been using Macs for many years). She then told me that she had forgot about the first disk and by accident jammed a second one into the drive, realizing about her mistake she tried to get the second one out. (quite resonable so far). But the tried mode of extraction was trying to put a third disk in the drive and that was the one I was seeing!
I could get the third disk out but the second one was very solidly jammed in and also blocked any atempt to remove the case, to get to the disk drive from other directions.
The end result was that I told that the Plus was useless and repairs costly and that they needed an other Mac to connect to the lab equipment. Speed was not an issue, a small foot print was, so a equaly old SE was dusted of and plugged in and after installing the program it was up and running in minutes.
Some years later we were discarding a dead IIcx and I tried to duplicate the event with the disks. I failed, with one disk in the drive I could not get a second in no matter how hard I pushed and bended the disk. So how they got 3 in is a mystery or perhaps the drive mechanism on the Plus was different than later models.
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Originally posted by Addison
Are you sure he wasn't holding the mouse upsider down?
Try turning your mouse around like that. If you can continue to move the cursor around without noticing that something is horribly wrong, well... I don't know... that would be amazing to me.
Originally posted by spotcatbug
Try turning your mouse around like that. If you can continue to move the cursor around without noticing that something is horribly wrong, well... I don't know... that would be amazing to me.
Well, some of the stories here are pretty amazing to me. Referring to a window on screen as an ENVELOPE!?
I wouldn't put it past someone, frankly.
That said, I had a phone call just as I got home today from a friend who is a video editor at a major advertising company (bear in mind here, computer support is not my job) who had been going nuts all afternoon: turns out his company is submitting a showreel for a competition, but the organisers have insisted that submissions are supplied as MPEG-2 videos (no, I have no idea why anyone would insist on that).
So, he's edited it all together on the Avid (like I say, it's a major company) and dumped it out to Cleaner, made an MPEG-2, but he can't get it to play in Quicktime.
He's asked all the Mac techs there, and they're totally clueless, so, knowing that I'm something of a Mac geek, I get the call. About five minutes into the conversation, I asked him if he's got the MPEG-2 Playback Component installed... silence.
Ten minutes later, he called back, having bought and installed the component. Everything's hunky-dory.
Makes you feel good some days.
Armed with a paper clip I asumed to be victorius in a jiffy. Litte did I know
I found a disk solidly wedged half way in, and I saw an other disk in the drive
I asked the user how this came about (she had been using Macs for many years). She then told me that she had forgot about the first disk and by accident jammed a second one into the drive, realizing about her mistake she tried to get the second one out. (quite resonable so far). But the tried mode of extraction was trying to put a third disk in the drive and that was the one I was seeing!
I could get the third disk out but the second one was very solidly jammed in and also blocked any atempt to remove the case, to get to the disk drive from other directions.
The end result was that I told that the Plus was useless and repairs costly and that they needed an other Mac to connect to the lab equipment. Speed was not an issue, a small foot print was, so a equaly old SE was dusted of and plugged in and after installing the program it was up and running in minutes.
Some years later we were discarding a dead IIcx and I tried to duplicate the event with the disks. I failed, with one disk in the drive I could not get a second in no matter how hard I pushed and bended the disk. So how they got 3 in is a mystery or perhaps the drive mechanism on the Plus was different than later models.