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Configure your database software to think that data is written when it's not, and corruption is not the software's fault, it's yours. Or, in this case, arguably the IDE drives' fault for lying to their controllers. In any case, stop blaming MySQL.

See LiveJournal's post-mortem (scroll to "Disk cache issues") and Slashdot's story for more on this. If you administer databases, you should be aware of the problems with IDE drives, because if you misunderstand how they work, you can misconfigure any RDBMS to corrupt your data.

I too have had problems identifying an IM bot from a typical IM user.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwdeff/16872.html

That shows in the current discussion, which started out with a long and pointless flame war about the SCO thing. Anybody interested in a serious discussion is going to want to skip past it -- but how? So the discussion is dominated by idiots. No thanks.

Here's a LiveJournal skin that has a handy "thread" link that let's you drill down into threads and subthreads you're interested in. Only the lead post in each thread is shown until you drill down.

A simpler fix would be to add a "skip this thread" link to each article. The link would take you to the next commend on the same level.

Last weekend I was up in Vancouver for the Zombie Walk 2005. At one point we passed this H2. Under the windshield wiper was an American dollar bill with "gashole" Sharpied onto it. My camera was full by that point so I couldn't get a picture of it. :(

Something Awful is Somewhere Awful After the plug was pulled on the popular somethingawful.com, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of SomeThingAwful.com, hoping to focus the community's efforts on raising money for the Red Cross, in exchange for SomethingAwful.com merchandise, found his fundraising drive cancelled, by PayPal.com, when they shut down his account and stole the $20,000 dollars the members had raised for Hurricane Katrina. Everybody needs to see the complete insensitivity that PayPal has. They have no shame. They have taken money that was going to the Red Cross, used their policies against a fine internet community, and has stolen Hurricane Katrina fund money. This cannot go unpunished.

copy and paste snafu. I don't know how it happened quite like that though. http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 02, @08:21PM from the later-folks dept.

ComputerSherpa writes "Cyan Worlds closed it doors today.Cyan was the creator of Myst, the game that was partially responsible for popularizing the CD-ROM format. Until it was recently overtaken by The Sims, the Myst series was the most popular computer game series of all time. The last game in the Myst series, End of Ages, is scheduled to be released September 20th by UbiSoft."

Now less than 24 hours later we have a Slashdot story with a link to:
http://www.thegreydragon.com/2005/09/time-of-your- life-almost-all-of-cyan.html

Hey, my manual strcmp is returning 0 on this one. It might be a dup! Just a thought.

But as Scuttlemonkey says in his own "Who is Scuttlemonkey?":

...the topics that I try to post are usually ones that I feel would interest or impact the open source/linux/IT/geek/etc population as a whole.

I think all the editors should take a two week vacation in Tahiti, and appoint a few guest editors to take their place while sunning with CmdrTaco et al.

I volunteer. I'll drive you to the airport, too.

Vaguely Secret Compartment
* ballpoint pen: "Be a part of a usability study! http://www.adobe.com/usability

Laptop compartment:
* Heating assembly for fancy soldering iron (wire tangled w/ Sony wraparound headphones & phone wire)
* Wiring Simplified, New 31st Edition (1975 Code!)
* Sony Clie
* Smelly wallet, containing:

      1. Washington ID Card
      2. Seattle Central Community College Student ID
      3. Metro GoPass (expired)
      4. Zig-Zag Kutcorners
      5. Social Security Card
      6. Household Bank Gold (account closed)
      7. Business card for job I should pursue
      8. Ticket stub for Star Wars Episode III, 5/19/05, East Valley 13 Cinem customer copy
      9. Oseao business card
    10. Fitness club membership card I found while riding my bike on Capitol Hill
    11. Garfield Student ID card I found after getting off the bus
    12. Food Handler card (expires 2007)
    13. Receipt from Check Masters - Capitol Hill (last paycheck from That's Amore)

* Sony DCR-TRV27 Handycam (case cracked)
* cannister of Butane
* Flex Scraper

Middle compartment:
* Multimeter
* Sunglasses
* Crescent wrench
* Monkey wrench
* Lineman's pliers
* wire strippers
* saw
* level
* tile cutters
* butane-powered soldering iron
* phone
* my favorite screwdriver

Various zippery pockets
* Tiff's digicam
* red-insulated alligator clip
* miniDV tape label: MOTTMAID

more shit here

Epitonic.com can help you find a whole lot of good indie/experimental music, and they even have free, full-track downloads of songs by the artists they have info on, so you can get a decent feel for the type of music before you go out and buy their CDs. I'll also shamelessly plug a very useful LiveJournal, which has been finding good indie music downloads for a long time.

The police and authorities are not treating people all the same.

Well it depends on how you look at it. A few (handful) of looters struck - the next day. Most of this wasn't as bad as it was reported, but because it was so heavily focused on *everyone* has had to suffer. The idea that it was "unsafe" to enter these areas was just plain wrong. People have been doing what they can to impress those working on relief, even going as far as forming single file lines! As far as treating people with equity, why is it being reported that Hyatt customers get busses before the dying people held up in convention centers or stadiums? (Just one source.)

Basically, everyone is suffering/dying because a few people are causing a problem. So everyone is being punished.

There is no firing into crowds, and that sort of thing. No doubt the authorities are overwhelmed and need all the outside help they can get, but they are coping as best they can.

Coping the best they can? We are talking about simple things like dropping bottled water and MRE's for fellow humans. Sure the local police might not be able to get a hold on the situation, but where is the Guard? Where?

If people are shooting, looting (not food - TV's, etc), causing violence and intimidation, they are being treated like the common criminals they are. If they are people in distress who need help, everyone is trying to get help to them.

Who even cares if someone loots a TV? It's likely ruined with all of the flooding, and by the time the insurance papers are filed it won't matter if it floated away or was water-logged. Sure, keep people out of the homes - but KMart, Wal-Mart and the rest are insured for these items. Still, people loot when they are given the chance. If you know what it was like to live your whole life poor, you'd understand what happens in your mind when the "all rules off" mode sets in. Plus you've got to figure, mob mentality. You can't blame an individual for doing what the crowd is doing. You may want to - but we've seen enough that these types of acts spread with the mob to understand that people just lose control.

But you're idea of treating looters like "the common criminals they are" really scares me. How do you treat criminals? Beat them? Shoot them? Are they less than human? Because that isn't the country I live in, this is America. Umm... have you ever thought that the way you treat someone changes their outlook on life? I just can't get over this part of your post.

"Everyone" trying to get help to these people is just a lie. People are trapped, still, and have people who can come and get them. People have set up ways out and places to stay but they are being told "No".

As an aside, anyone trying to score poliltical [SIC] points in either direction on the back of this disaster should be taken out back for summary execution.

Is it politics when you are pointing out that the federal government is failing these dying people? Is it politics to point out that FEMA has resorted to "worst federal agency" status that it held back before Hurricane Andrew? You can't make a statement like that in America - public life and politics is so intertwined that it is our duty to make an issue out of this. What makes me sick is that people out there are so loyal to the President they fail to acknowledge that he failed us - it makes me sick that they are downplaying the amount of suffering. Laura Bush has said, as well as FEMA Director Michael Brown, that the things we see on TV aren't what is going on. That's bullshit, we've not seen the worst yet. Even worse is that people like Harry Connick Jr (who made it out un-molested by these dangerous types) are saying that is in fact true.

Who is lying? The witnesses or the people who were miles away during Katrina's landfall.

They're not attacking civilians or anything, as far as I've heard. The main information I've been told is that, at least in the first few days, a lot of the police and such were set to guarding buildings or particular areas and would train their guns on anyone that came near. There was a similar reaction from the patrolling officers, who would told their weapons outside the car windows as they drove. I understand that the police officers stationed there are under an incredible amount of stress and they have to be careful. It just that the orders that they were being given just don't seem to coincide with the best interests of the law-abiding refugees.

I don't think this is a political issue anymore, I'm just upset at how ineffective the support has been up until now. The most insightful comment I've read was from Newt Gringrich, who said "I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?"

There was an interesting blog based in New Orleans where they comment on things like this. It has links to a lot of pictures they have been taking of the events.

It's quite clear who the author is. If anyone cares, they have the link and the email address right there.

Ps: if the link is goatse, it's Robb going at it again.

So this guy apparently thought that these massive 3 or 4 % hits were not acceptable, and learned about .htaccess to redirect them away? Wow, that is a really clever hack! And it seems he didn't even get it right, because his first referrer site now also displays the "dear Fuddruckers" message despite having nothing to do with Fuddruckers.

Also, he is replacing the original URL with shock images and popups? Dudes, there are troll groups on Slashdot who have been doing that for years...

Sorry, not really impressed. Nor even interested, to be honest.

Since they rejected my article about it, I'll post it here.

Interdictor, at http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/ (This is at Livejournal, they can handle the bandwidth) This guy is right down there in New Orleans, LA.

He's got live pictures, webcams, and live scanner feeds on the site. Support him, and give him some feedback. This guy is down there in the thick of it, and he's giving us some real feedback. Not what has been filtered through the media.

Link to the guy's posts on a webserver that can handle it, please

Gatta love the understatement of the week on his blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/2005/ 08/27/

If only they knew then...

Now THIS is funny - from the File::Monk man page:


THE UGLY TRUTH LAID BARE ^

Extracted from mork.pl

In Netscape Navigator 1.0 through 4.0, the history.db file was just a Berkeley DBM file. You could trivially bind to it from Perl, and pull out the URLs and last-access time. In Mozilla, this has been replaced with a "Mork" database for which no tools exist.

Let me make it clear that McCusker is a complete barking lunatic. This is just about the stupidest file format I've ever seen.

              http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.t xt
              http://jwz.livejournal.com/312657.html
              http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
              http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438

In brief, let's count its sins:

        * Two different numerical namespaces that overlap.
        * It can't decide what kind of character-quoting syntax to use: Backslash? Hex encoding with dollar-sign?
        * C++ line comments are allowed sometimes, but sometimes // is just a pair of characters in a URL.
        * It goes to all this serious compression effort (two different string-interning hash tables) and then writes out Unicode strings without using UTF-8: writes out the unpacked wchar_t characters!
        * Worse, it hex-encodes each wchar_t with a 3-byte encoding, meaning the file size will be 3x or 6x (depending on whether whchar_t is 2 bytes or 4 bytes.)
        * It masquerades as a "textual" file format when in fact it's just another binary-blob file, except that it represents all its magic numbers in ASCII. It's not human-readable, it's not hand-editable, so the only benefit there is to the fact that it uses short lines and doesn't use binary characters is that it makes the file bigger. Oh wait, my mistake, that isn't actually a benefit at all.

Pure comedy.

Some cops have figured it out:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/36111 .html?thread=437263#t437263/

THE REAL NEWS
The following is the result of an interview I just conducted via cell phone with a New Orleans citizen stranded at the Convention Center. I don't know what you're hearing in the mainstream media or in the press conferences from the city and state officials, but here is the truth:

"Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood waters. Here is his story as told to me moments ago. I took notes while he talked and then I asked some questions:

Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.

It's been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.

Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.

There are many infants and elderly people among them, as well as many people who were injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the like -- all of them in dire straights.

Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of these dead people are kids.

The people are so desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians.

The buses never stop.

Before the supplies were pitched off the bridge today, people had to break into buildings in the area to try to find food and water for their families. There was not enough. This spurred many families to break into cars to try to escape the city. There was no police response to the auto thefts until the mob reached the rich area -- Saulet Condos -- once they tried to get cars from there... well then the whole swat teams began showing up with rifles pointed. Snipers got on the roof and told people to get back.

He reports that the conditions are horrendous. Heat, mosquitoes and utter misery. The smell, he says, is "horrific."

He says it's the slowest mandatory evacuation ever, and he wants to know why they were told to go to the Convention Center area in the first place; furthermore, he reports that many of them with cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but people are not being allowed through to pick them up.

Also for understatement.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/36111 .html?thread=437263#t437263/

New Orleanes Registrar vs. Katrina.

DirectNIC.com, a registrar and host which is based in New Orleans, evacuated the majority of their personnel. The skeleton staff that remained spent a great deal of effort battling broken windows, incoming water, and flying debris, from their high-rise office and data center. Their hosting and registration services remained online and worked flawlessly however they are currently running on a back-up diesel generator. From their website "Please understand that with the aforementioned power outage, and the fact that travelling to and from our offices (on the 11th floor) is somewhat restricted, responses to customer support issues might take a little longer than normal to be addressed...You've heard of 'bullet-proof hosting'? directNIC.com is now proudly able to prove that their services are literally 'hurricane-proof'."

Their blog and photos of this event were featured on CNN.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/36111 .html/

I do appreciate the need for police to commandeer supplies, food, weapons, ammo,etc.

But what does the cop 2/3 rds down the page need with a stack of DVDs? Thats a picture of police looting, plain and simple, sucks but cops are people too, they are fallable too, trying to pretend it doesn't happen or sweep it under the rug because of the risks cops make will do nothing to keep cops from looting in the future.

The problem is that Mozilla uses Mork to store the history, and Mork databases are more or less impossible to extract usable data from. So you don't really have much of a choice ;)

Been updating for a while. Someone dropped this link in an efnet channel last night/this morning.

is that once one goes many times they'll follow the same path due to the winds being in the same configuration. funny they thought the carolinas were going to get it this year. im in homestead. we got ALOT of flooding when katrina came through here as a strong category 1. see here for the pictures
http://cixel.livejournal.com/1109022.html

This guy is blogging from the DirectNIC datacenter in downtown New Orleans. Amazingly, they're still up. He seems to be having a hard time looking for diesel fuel. And then he starts talking about "survivalist hygiene"... He seems serious (to the point of being crazy) about staying there for the long haul.

New Orleanes Registrar vs. Katrina.

DirectNIC.com, a registrar and host which is based in New Orleans, evacuated the majority of their personnel. The skeleton staff that remained spent a great deal of effort battling broken windows, incoming water, and flying debris, from their high-rise office and data center. Their hosting and registration services remained online and worked flawlessly however they are currently running on a back-up diesel generator. From their website "Please understand that with the aforementioned power outage, and the fact that travelling to and from our offices (on the 11th floor) is somewhat restricted, responses
to customer support issues might take a little longer than normal to be addressed...You've
heard of 'bullet-proof hosting'? directNIC.com is now proudly able to prove that their services are literally 'hurricane-proof'."

Their blog
and photos of this event were featured on CNN.

• Nola.com: Good news source.
• New Orleans LiveJournal Bloggers
• Long, devestating helicopter flyover of the disaster. (Someone grab a mirror of this, as it's long and will certainly be swamped. And that was before the worst of the flooding had arrived.)
• Yahoo's photo roundup.

-Crow T. Trollbot

The user experience might have suffered a little with the switch to BOINC, but think of what has been gained: a generic distributed computing system, where projects can fairly easily package up their computational problem for SETI@home-like processing, without having to go through all the work of setting up the distributed computing infrastructure! And with BOINC, you can specify what percentage of your cpu resources you want to go to which processes... it's like the United Way for CPU cycles. (-:

I work on the LIGO project, which is searching for gravitational waves using several huge interferometers (one out in the desert of Eastern Washington at the old Hanford Works, were Plutonium was made for the Manhattan Project; the other currently being belted by the hurricane down in Louisiana, 3002 km away). I was really impressed by the Einstein@home talk at the most recent meeting. The computation by the Einstein@home project is really very valuable to the LIGO project. If you want to run Einstein@home, it will really help LIGO.

Some pictures from LIGO: http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot/tag/ligo
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

I'm surprised that /. hasn't decended en-masse to comment the hell out of his post. ;)

The author seems to be confusing two different styles of blog.

The first is someone who writes (often on a standalone website) with the intention of being read by and being interesting to complete strangers. This corresponds to the first two generations.

The second, what he calls "consumer bloggers". These may use a blog for various reasons, such as personal journalling, or communicating with friends, but it's rarely intended that what they write is targetted to people who don't know them. Similarly, such people are unlikely to read blogs other than those of their friends.

Whilst there are crossovers, these are very distinct usages (so much so, that I always feel it's misleading to group them under the term "blogger" - "blog" is just a medium, and says nothing about the usage or intention of the writing).

If the first has given way to the second, I guess it's because few people want to read things written by strangers, even if they are quite interesting, and the second usage of blogs is far more powerful. But I see no evidence that the first style of blogging is in decline, and even if it is, this may not be related to "consumer blogging" at all.

I also feel the author has the timelines wrong for "consumer blogging" - LiveJournal for example has been around since 1999, which always made it easy to set up a blog (the author claims it was "a damn site harder to set up a blog than it is now" even in 2002!) and since about 2002, the vast majority of people I know have had blogs, and used them as "consumer blogs".

The term "geek blogger" is a bit misleading too - most of the people I know with blogs could be considered "geeks", but they're using them in the style of consumer blogging, rather than the first style of blogging.

The fellow subsequently went back and took many more, better photos--including himself (wearing a "Han Shot First" T-shirt) standing on the mockup or sitting in the cockpit. According to a subsequent LJ entry he has found out who the owner is, and gotten a price from the owner (which he says is reasonable considering, but doesn't want to reveal for fear of some private collector snatching it up). But he's not sure where to go from there.

I am a scientist.

No, you are not. You are a programmer living in Atlanta, GA, who voted for Bush, and is too dumb to think that someone might find your livejournal
and read it. Since you said you are leaving the country soon, it seems like you got that job in Ireland. Good for you. Have some Guiness and enjoy the music scene.

A CS degree alone doesn't make you a scientist. In order to be a scientist you have to be able to do science. In order to do science you have to at least be able to recognize what an experiment is.

Unlike Europe, which rejects the 300 million person, 10 year experiment with GM foods.

Ok, how in the fuck is this an experiment? Where is the control group? What are the data gathering mechanisms? WHERE ARE THE CONSENT FORMS FOR EXPERIMENTING ON HUMAN BEINGS? This is your evidence for Europe rejecting science? Grow up. I'm only a year or two older than you (graduated HS in '92), and I actually am a scientist. You have had almost every statement you made in this thread shot down. You don't seem to know much about the history of technology, and you seem to feel the need to lie about who you are and what you do in order to make it sound like you have a clue.

The sad thing is, I agree with you that GM food is almost certainly safe. However, there has not been a 300 million person, 10 years experiment to show this, and bullshiting about it doesn't make it so. As for the posited decline in US science, I'm not old enough to know whether US science is in decline or not - I've only been doing science for about 10 years.

You may notice a few people in this thread bitching about people who think that America is first in everything, whether they are or not. I get the feeling that they are talking to you. I think the US is a great country, but we have an awful lot of clueless nationalists like yourself recently, and that's why I start to worry.

In the meantime, good luck with your paperwork for working in Ireland.

A guy was poking around in a aircraft graveyard in the American Southwest, and found the flying ambulance from the Firefly episode "Ariel"

He then put the photos up on his journal here.

This isn't viral marketing, it's scavenger hunt marketing!

You might want to read this post from an ex-line controller of the tube about how it would be strange if the cameras were working.

Its funny how many oracles post on /. without bothering to sift their facts from their bull.

Interested readers might want to read this and this.

ADVision never has a big booth at Otakon. They let Suncoast handle sales for them in the Dealer's Room, and they participate in Industry Panels at the event. Dave Williams, one of the producers for ADVision, was there, and mentioned Otakon in his blog yesterday, along with links to the torrents for Madlax and Godannar. You'll need this codec to view these.

I don't think monopoly means what you think it does.

It can be mentioned in polite society.

I'm still waiting for hurricane overlays for google earth. That would really be neat.

Didn't I hear something just recently though about the national weather service trying to cut off access to the free information because they said there were enough free or advertizing subsidized services out here already? ahh yes heres some information on it http://www.livejournal.com/community/weathernerds/ 229555.html
The bill can be read here
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:s786:

What the hell is she supposed to do? Punt?

That could work! My wife's workplace (a college) has machines with that exact setup! Works like a charm, 'cause nobody wants to use them! Brilliant!

Apple isn't going to take on Microsoft. First Apple knows better than to waste their time trying to make an OS that supports every damn accessory; card or plugged in; as that only invites frustration on the consumer level.

They have labored under the misconception that they are a hardware company for years -- and it cost them world domination. If Apple had thought of themselves as a software company back in the early eighties Microsoft wouldn't have stood a chance. Seriously. Gates would still be selling computer languages and maybe an office productivity suite or two. But ninety percent of the world's PC's wouldn't be running Windoze. I wrote up a little allegory called 'Coffee and Donuts' about this phenomenon a while back. Basically the truth isn't that Gates won by making a better product. We already know that isn't the case. So what was the secret? He won by simply understanding the market better.

And the PC market isn't there because of the hardware, no matter how cool it is.

from some blogger:

Further I would guess that this is to make a very fast hash-table implementation, the sort of thing required for a performance critical thing like binary emulation.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/gamingtattoos /2215.html

I think it looks great as-is, colouring it would be bad.

there's always:

http://cookingforengineers.com/

and

http://www.livejournal.com/community/2600_cuisine/

You claim to have started out with a /. username, but even from the post you can see: by stinerman (812158) Alter Relationship on Friday August 05, @12:56PM (#13248592) (http://www.livejournal.com/~stinerman/ | Last Journal: Friday April 29, @12:05AM) You already have a full name, a live journal and the possibility of a Slashdot journal, and that's all without looking.

Which reviewer said he had to lift his index finger?

And just because dual clicking has no function in Mac OS X or Apple's mouse drivers it doesn't say anything about that data being available on the USB bus for third-party drivers to pick up.

• Read - Russell Beattie
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• Read - Macrumours forums
• Read - theory.isthereason
• Read - Macworld first impressions

I've recently switched to using OS X, and it'd be nice if Apple were to add an optional multi-button functionality to its laptops (beyond [ctrl][click], which requires two hands to be done comfortably). This program looks like a work-around, though I haven't tried it yet.

Personally, I never understood the big deal about one vs two buttons on the Mac. Apple has supported two buttons via any cheap 3rd party mouse for some time. While my 3-year-old has no problem using a two button mouse, my father in-law has never grasped the concept. I'm a sysadmin and some of the users I support get that deer-in-the-headlights look when I tell them to right-click (these are the same users that don't understand directory hierarchy... but thanks to things like Spotlight, they wont need me to find their files anymore).

So IMHO the one-button mouse is not as stupid and out-dated an idea as some seem to think. I wont be buying a Mighty Mouse, but Apple has provided an elegant solution that allows both power users and novices to work of the same computer.

Now, the feel of the mouse. The mouse maintains the idea where the entire body rocks downward to click. And yes, the mouse still makes a resounding CLICK sound when clicked. There are proximity sensors under each side of the tip of the mouse. If your finger is over the left side when you click, you get a left click. Right side works the same way. If you have a finger over each side and click you just get a left click. As I personally tend to use my left and middle fingers for clicking, this will take some getting used to, but it's not a big deal.

For my initial impressions about this mouse, check out my LiveJournal post discussing it here. In short, I rather like the mouse, although since I was using it in a near-silent house last night, I noticed that it makes a sort of squeaking sound sometimes. I think this is plastic rubbing in it somewhere...