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Jul. 9th, 2006 11:49 pmCrisis Averted.
My mouse broke. Normally, that'd be all "oh, whatever, just get a new one", and I've got several, but it broke badly. The metal male part at the end of the cord that does the actual connecting popped out of its (for lack of a better word) socket on the cord. So it took me a while to get the metal bit out of the female thing on the actual computer. But while trying to get that out, the black plastic thing in the middle of the pins in the connector broke off inside the hole on the computer. Thing is, I didn't realize this. So I got the new (old) mouse after getting the metal thing out of the computer, and tried to put it in. Wouldn't go. It was in a little, but then wiggled all over. I tried taping it steady, but that didn't work either. Cursing ensued. I thought part of one of the pins broke off and was stuck in there. So I tried to get it out. There is virtually nothing in the common household that will fit into one of those pin holes. Save a pin. But those are too big to maneuver around something and get it out. So I figured I was screwed. And then I happened to see something shine in the bigger hole that the plastic thing fits in. Spent a while trying to find things that could fit in there and get it out. Tweezers, precision screwdrivers, finally I just bent open a safety pin. Some 20 minutes later, I had finally wiggled the thing around enough that I could scrape it out. So now the new/old mouse works. Well, it works more or less, it's still a pretty crappy old mouse that has trouble moving the cursor up, but it works. Yay. That only took almost an hour.
My mouse broke. Normally, that'd be all "oh, whatever, just get a new one", and I've got several, but it broke badly. The metal male part at the end of the cord that does the actual connecting popped out of its (for lack of a better word) socket on the cord. So it took me a while to get the metal bit out of the female thing on the actual computer. But while trying to get that out, the black plastic thing in the middle of the pins in the connector broke off inside the hole on the computer. Thing is, I didn't realize this. So I got the new (old) mouse after getting the metal thing out of the computer, and tried to put it in. Wouldn't go. It was in a little, but then wiggled all over. I tried taping it steady, but that didn't work either. Cursing ensued. I thought part of one of the pins broke off and was stuck in there. So I tried to get it out. There is virtually nothing in the common household that will fit into one of those pin holes. Save a pin. But those are too big to maneuver around something and get it out. So I figured I was screwed. And then I happened to see something shine in the bigger hole that the plastic thing fits in. Spent a while trying to find things that could fit in there and get it out. Tweezers, precision screwdrivers, finally I just bent open a safety pin. Some 20 minutes later, I had finally wiggled the thing around enough that I could scrape it out. So now the new/old mouse works. Well, it works more or less, it's still a pretty crappy old mouse that has trouble moving the cursor up, but it works. Yay. That only took almost an hour.
