I seem to be on a roll. Fixed my Mighty Mouse by taking it apart and cleaning out the ball mechanism area. I had to glue the stupid rings. It appears once you take it apart, the only way to get the rings back on (outer and inner one (inner does glide surface) is to glue it. So I got glue holding the rings (5-ton epoxy) to the bottom. It works nicely.
I got the mouse about a year ago off of ebay for $10 NIB, after about a month, it quit scrolling down. so I ended up shelving it after seeing the problems. I decided to press my luck tonight and took the 5 minutes to clean the freaking thing out. Man it was filthy in ball area. How can one of those things accumulate dirt so quick?!
Oh well... I got it going "bluetooth" to the new powerbook, and I will keep using it on that.
I downgraded to 10.4 on the machine since 10.5 was being a bit sluggish on the suggestion from Defor in the IRC room. It is much snappier and workable. On top of that, with spotlight and dashboard turned off, it really makes it quite quick.
Not bad for a machine that shipped with 10.2.7, eh?
My PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz 12" laptop will still run 10.5 though. Seems to do rather well. I may downgrade that though just to see, or dual boot it. We shall see. I can always boot it off this machine to see how well it does over firewire.
Well, I think I am done repairing stuff for the night. I gotta finish up some work and then I will be heading to bed shortly.
Lots of stuff has happened and came in (Cisco gear, the DC In jack, the apple tv came today, I will write a review later...)
So I think it's time to unwind and get ready to sleep.
I got the mouse about a year ago off of ebay for $10 NIB, after about a month, it quit scrolling down. so I ended up shelving it after seeing the problems. I decided to press my luck tonight and took the 5 minutes to clean the freaking thing out. Man it was filthy in ball area. How can one of those things accumulate dirt so quick?!
Oh well... I got it going "bluetooth" to the new powerbook, and I will keep using it on that.
I downgraded to 10.4 on the machine since 10.5 was being a bit sluggish on the suggestion from Defor in the IRC room. It is much snappier and workable. On top of that, with spotlight and dashboard turned off, it really makes it quite quick.
Not bad for a machine that shipped with 10.2.7, eh?
My PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz 12" laptop will still run 10.5 though. Seems to do rather well. I may downgrade that though just to see, or dual boot it. We shall see. I can always boot it off this machine to see how well it does over firewire.
Well, I think I am done repairing stuff for the night. I gotta finish up some work and then I will be heading to bed shortly.
Lots of stuff has happened and came in (Cisco gear, the DC In jack, the apple tv came today, I will write a review later...)
So I think it's time to unwind and get ready to sleep.