Serial Mouse Still in Windows 10 [Trigger Warning: Disabled]
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Who needs a time machine when you have Windows 10?
An external device chattering away into a USB virtual comm port when you boot Windows 10 can get seen as a serial "Microsoft BallPoint" mouse.I was wondering why somebody was mousing around my desktop and randomly clicking on the windows.
Or are they just rebadging Windows 95 again ?
FFS.
Its a known problem with older Windows .. and this also describes the fix..
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Because Microsoft is basically force pushing this on Windows 7+ users, they have to continue supporting any devices that Windows 7 supported.
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I thought it was common knowledge that unless you want to be misidentified as something weird, you had to avoid sending any data for the first two seconds after connection
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Is the the error, or that serial mice drivers are still built in to Windows?
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The real is Windows thinking that a serial device must be a mouse.
Really, if someone is still using a serial mouse (with a ball), make him a huge favor by telling him to go buy a fuckin USB mouse without the stupid ball because his mouse is not supported anymore !
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make him a huge favor by telling him to go buy a fuckin USB mouse without the stupid ball because his mouse is not supported anymore !
Plenty of USB mice have balls to this day!
/me waves her cane
and you can get of my lawn if you thing i'm giving up my balls!
INB4 Giggity
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Really, if someone is still using a serial mouse (with a ball), make him a huge favor by telling him to go buy a fuckin USB mouse without the stupid ball because his mouse is not supported anymore !
You're . Don't think desktop. Think industrial and automation and inventory control. Plenty of those applications still use crufty applications that interface through serial and hack it in as a mouse.
I used to work for a major healthcare company as a field technician. They did inventory control and dispensation for pharmacy. If you opened the device manager, you would think the machines had a dozen serial mice attached.
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That's a male mouse
But you know I was talking about these kind of mouse
File under : I need to remove the ball and clean it up AGAIN !
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Think industrial and automation and inventory control. Plenty of those applications still use crufty applications that interface through serial and hack it in as a mouse.
These dumb f**k should be forced to manually install a serial mouse driver. Would make a lot more sense than auto-detecting everything on a COM port as a serial mouse.And what is wrong with these company that they can't be bothered to make their software talk to the device with a serial protocol ?
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USB virtual comm port
Holy shit that's a timepod.
Last time I used that shit it was to get some crappy label printer working in Windows 2000.
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And what is wrong with these company that they can't be bothered to make their software talk to the device with a serial protocol ?
Don't know. It is hackery. But they spend a lot more money with M$ than you do, so you are SOL. ;)
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Is the the error, or that serial mice drivers are still built in to Windows?
Why would that be a WTF?
There could be rare but extremely important mouses designed, say, for disabled people that need to continue functioning because they've been out of production for years.
Oh wait, you probably take the open source approach of: fuck the disabled!!! FUCK YOU!!!!! I HATE USERS!
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@Polygeekery said:
Is the the error, or that serial mice drivers are still built in to Windows?
Why would that be a WTF?
There could be rare but extremely important mouses designed, say, for disabled people that need to continue functioning because they've been out of production for years.
Oh wait, you probably take the open source approach of: fuck the disabled!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!
This. And as long as you're maintaining the COM stack anyway, having the serial mouse driver in there is probably cheap.
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But they spend a lot more money with M$ than you do
That's a given, since I spend $0 annually
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There could be rare but extremely important mouses designed, say, for disabled people that need to continue functioning because they've been out of production for years.
And they could come with an installable driver, or provide a download for said driver
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Oh wait, you probably take the open source approach of: fuck the disabled!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!
Of course there is nothing on the Linux side for disabled users.
As proof :
and
I HATE USERS!
Yeah, we know you do
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And they could come with an installable driver, or provide a download for said driver
I already said in this hypothetical situation they went out of business decades ago. WHO IS GOING TO MAKE THE DRIVER!?!??!?!
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Of course there is nothing on the Linux side for disabled users.
The Linux community can't even make their shit work for able users. You're telling me the guys who write Git take disabled users into account? Fuck no, that's laughable.
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I hadn't considered that. Also, I was liked by Lunix weenie @TimeBandit, so I must be in the wrong. I hereby retract my statement
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You're telling me the guys who write Git take disabled users into account?
So you are disabled, that's why you can't use Git ?
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Partially. We've discussed that many times in the past.
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There could be rare but extremely important mouses designed, say, for disabled people that need to continue functioning because they've been out of production for years.
Oh wait, you probably take the open source approach of: fuck the disabled!!! FUCK YOU!!!!! I HATE USERS!
No, I take the approach of trying to figure out what someone is talking about before flying off the handle like a fucking lunatic asshole. If you had read a little further you might have seen I took a similar position to yours.
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I used to do that but it turns out they were always being idiots so I don't bother anymore.
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This conversation needs a trigger warning for disabled persons, for the unforeseeable reason that there are products designed for disabled people that are no longer supported and as such Windows still needs to support backwards compatibility for them, despite the cost of fucking other things up.
Apparently disabled people are incapable of responding to such a matter as "Actually, there is a good use for it." as opposed to "How could you not be aware of this obscure fact you disabled-person-hater".
I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't just classify internet-use as a disability.
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All this assumes the disability is physiological.
I don't see anything in that list that attends to cognitive disabilities.
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Some advanced features, such as listing or switching branches may require use of the Git command line interface.
Switching branches is now an "advanced feature" guys.
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Like dyslexia.
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Like autism? I assure you, I can use git just fine.
Autistic people are probably the only people who can use it "just fine".
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Pull Down / Clone / etc.
Checkin.
Pull Request.I just performed 99% of my duties without switching branches.
Right?
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Pull Request.
"Enable the following commands"
gti plul
...
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Bash as you covered
.bashrc
alias "gti plul"="git pull"
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Yes, let's make fun of disabled people, that's a riot.
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Autistic people are probably the only people who can use it "just fine".
Just because you are toostupidstubborn to learn how to use a tool, don't assume everybody is.
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I've tried to learn git, I use svn at work. The barrier to entry with git is astronomical. The problem is not the fact that "add commit push done" is hard, it's that if something goes wrong (which it almost always will with a newbie setting up their first repo) it is nearly impossible for someone not intimately familiar with git to fix. I also don't understand why, at least in a large company, a centralized repository doesn't make more sense. $TechGiant isn't going to need little johnny code monkey to have a local repo just in case their server goes down, they have backups. And even with svn, our entire codebase is on my machine, even though the only valid "master repo" is in the centralized server
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Last time I used that shit it was to get some crappy label printer working in Windows 2000.
Last time I used one was with the Palm Pilot. Think I was on XP then. Also a really old Garmin GPS unit. Both are history. (But I'm pretty sure I kept the USB-Serial cable...)
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I already said in this hypothetical situation they went out of business decades ago
If they own a Mac, they're required to upgrade hardware.
CLOSED_BY_DESIGN
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Isn't @accalia master of the SockDrawer Github-group?
Filed Under: no insult intended!
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Last week with hand held terminal, think stock/ inventory scanner/PoS
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Dyslexia and bad spelling are different. I've got a brother who is dyslexic, I've been learnin a lot about it recently.
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Knowledge about a certain topic is a to making jokes, though!
Filed Under: I learned a lot about that since I am on this forum
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Isn't @accalia master of the SockDrawer Github-group?
well creator anyway.
if you're looking for the admins that would be me, @Onyx, @RaceProUK, and @Yamikuronue.
or if you're implying that i'm dyslexic..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not diagnosed that, but i am a bad typist, and i'm a lot better at regocnizing when words are misspeeled than i am at spelliing them corretcly.
so maybe? i certainly won't take offense if you consider me so. at the same time i'll politely point out that i don't consider myself dyslexic.
so..... yeah..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Nah, I just wanted to make a little joke as to your bad typing
I really didn't meant to imply that I actually believe you to be dyslexicFiled Under: In case it is any condolence to you, I can sometimes recognize my own misspeelings btu stil nott corecct tem becaus my brrain doesnt giv me te corretc wrods!
Also Filed Under: I tried to copy your mistakes in that one probably intentionally mispelled sentence... I hope it shows :D
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I also don't understand why, at least in a large company, a centralized repository doesn't make more sense.
One of the common misconceptions of people switching from a VCS to a DVCS is that there is no central repository in a DVCS.
That is wrong. You're still going to have a central server that holds he master copy of the code. Or at least you'd better be doing it that way.
However, if something catastrophic happens and your central server does go down, any copy of the repository can be used to recreate the copy on the central server for the branches it has checked out.
You can checkin changes locally if you want a history of the changes you're making. You can even decide later to go back and merge these changes into a single commit before pushing it back to the master branch in order to keep the history on master cleaner.
If you merge commits after pushing changes to master (and after your coworkers have checked out some of your changes), you'll probably get very nasty looks from your coworkers as you force them all to do merges that affect every file you touched.
You can also do a form of review in DVCSs by requiring that changes be done in branches. Then, developers have to use pull requests to merge the changes back to master which can be reviewed by other developers on the team.
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Nah, I just wanted to make a little joke as to your bad typing
i don't have the nickname "Suntanatrix of Swypos for nothing you know!
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Suntanatrix of Swypos
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of all the times to typo..... you had to pick that one, didn't you @accalia
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Suntanatrix
I dunno... Can foxes even get a suntan? What would that look like?
Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting it, and you actually like suntanning others (with Swypos of course).
Filed under: Am I doing it right?
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Can foxes even get a suntan?
Sure. You need to shave them first.
(Someone else can GIS for "shaved fox", thankyouverymuch)