Because, as sad and counterintuitive as it is, they used a quite common placement, one which is used in Eclipse for example (updater is in the About menu), FlashFXP too, I think, and Trillian are examples of softwares with updates in the Help/About menu.
The leak was that a tab's content (history, cached data,...) was left in memory (not put in disk cache, not removed, it just stayed there) when you closed said tab. Issue has been fixed.
Not in a new tab, in the current tab, and it now behaves in a sane way (no more chrome:// bullshit and no more "hey that didn't work and now you can't correct the wrongly typed URL you loser" crap).
True. It's not called the MX 700 (because it is of course a different model), but in looks and features, I'm pretty sure it's just like the MX 700 aside from BlueTooth.
Yep. MX900, mouse bundled with the DiNovo bluetooth keyboard
Quite a lot of tasks can't be that easily done with the keyboard only in MSWindows environments, and that's without mentioning the fact that most website have shitty (at best) mouseless navigation... even with Firefox's godsend Find As You Type...
I never had any problem with my MX1000, except when it's closing to out of range (>2m from the reception pad, roughly).
If yours has problems, do contact the Logitech post-sale service and ask them to change your mouse, very early versions had problems indeed. Don't hesitate if you really are suffering from that issue, they have one of the greatest service I've ever seen (even though I haven't had the need to use it myself yet, and I damn hope I'll never have to)
The only issue that may arise for the non-earliest versions is that the laser actually tracks too well, and can still track (or try to) when the mouse is ~1cm above the surface, which gets really annoying for fast-paced FPS players that move their mouses around a lot. Other people won't give a damn about that (I sure don't)
MX700 isn't bluetooth, MX900 is. For the future of BT, Logitech is preparing a Bluetooth MX1000 for it's new wireless keyboard/mouse kits (Cordless Desktop MX5000 and DiNovo Media Desktop Laser) both using Bluetooth 2.0, they should become available soon. I don't know if the BT MX1000 will be available as a standalone mouse though.
From what I read in this thread, multi-button mice don't actually require any kind of drivers to work with Linux, the extra buttons are supposedly handled out of the box, you 'just' have to find how to configure them
Been done already, MX1000 has a rechargable battery and you put it in a cradle, and the new G7 has 2 batteries that you can plug out (and plug into the charger), aka you can use one while the other one is recharging (battery loading is much faster than battery consumption so that's not a problem).
I, for the life of me, can't begin to understand why the heck they went back to regular batteries for the MX610...
Heaviest wireless mouse I know of is the MX1000 with 175g I think, then you have the wired G5 with weights you can hook into the mouse to make it heavier
While MX610 features regular batteries, MX1000 and G7 both use accumulators (or whatever that's called), one stuck in for the MX1000, and 2 that can be pulled out for the G7 (which mean that you can reload one when using the other), no more paying for regular batteries.
The problem I've found with wireless, optical mice is that they still only really work when they're on a mouse mat, so when you zoom across the office on your overpriced executive chair (because you can) you're keyboard works, but your mouse is useless.
MX610 has the same sensor as the previous MX1000: laser. They can track on any surface, including most mirrors (no it's not a joke), usually don't care about reflective surfaces that regular optical choke on and are overall much more precise...
Oh, and while MX1000 only has ~2m range (FastRF technology) MX610 should have a BT-type range of around 10m
While 10 buttons may seem a bit too much for a 3buttons mouse user (just as 3 buttons looked horribly complicated to a Macintosh user until Apple released the Mighty Mouse *wink*) you get addicted to them really fast, i'd say that 5 buttons is a bare minimum for me nowadays (with 1 button mapped to double clic and 1 to "close application").
Now 15+ buttons... well i'd have to try but I doubt being able to use that one.
About the other features, while the new buttons are... discusable (even though they pave the way for more interresting features, it's probably the first cordless mouse featuring 2ways communication)... such thing as the buttons, computer' power check (to go in standby or off mode), laser tracker (instead of the classical optical one) and BT-like range from the 2.4GHz band (Logitech's FastRF range was around 2 meters) are what i'd consider "useful" features. If you have never tried that kind of things on a mouse, stick to the 2buttons + wheel and shut up.
You probably haven't seen a Logitech mouse in a while now have you?
The MX1000 already featured no less than 8 buttons plus a tilt wheel, did indeed require you to install drivers to tune said buttons, and does fall back to extended PS2 (makes use of default action on some buttons, like MS mouses) when drivers are not installed.
610 will be the same.
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I take your point, but it seems to depend on context. The major Linux distros, for example, seem to be seeling pretty well from my local PC store at around 30-40 pounds (I'm in the UK), which is a pretty significant fraction of the asking price for Windows XP Home.
Said distros are sold that price for price of the support and documentation that come with them (support you don't have when you buy WXP Home), and sometimes for price of paid softwares bundled in the package, not for the distro itself.
I guess it's all about convenience. Whereas things like Firefox or OpenOffice.org can usually just be downloaded from the project's web site, it's harder to find a "pre-fab" version of SUSE Linux for example.
I'd even go as far as (?=\s)[A-Z]*?AA(?=\s) in order to account for any future Association of America. Even though few regex engine actually grok lookahead and lookbehind assertions.
I know K-Meleon, I know how fast it is, and I know how featureless it is (and user friendly too, nothing like tinkering in the config files with my good ol' notepad)
Well, i'm a Firefox use myself but I must say that Opera is much faster than a fully extensions-loaded Firefox (and even faster than a raw firefox), which means that on an old/crappy box Opera will be much more useable than FF and will hog much less memory. Which is nice, because Firefox on a
Having your school subscribe to MSDNAA program gives you free access to just about any MS software. Probably not free for the school (aka you indirectly pay for it), but it's probably much cheaper than every student buying Visual Studio 2003 + MSDN.Net, SQL Server Dev edition, Windows 2k (any version), XP (ditto) or 2k3 (still the same), Visio,...
It's a promotional scheme alright, but i must say i'm quite ok with that kind of schemes when they benefit me more than not.
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Because, as sad and counterintuitive as it is, they used a quite common placement, one which is used in Eclipse for example (updater is in the About menu), FlashFXP too, I think, and Trillian are examples of softwares with updates in the Help/About menu.
The leak was that a tab's content (history, cached data, ...) was left in memory (not put in disk cache, not removed, it just stayed there) when you closed said tab. Issue has been fixed.
You look like you should give a shot at Pornzilla, would probably shed a new light on the whole porn thing.
Not in a new tab, in the current tab, and it now behaves in a sane way (no more chrome:// bullshit and no more "hey that didn't work and now you can't correct the wrongly typed URL you loser" crap).
The new error page even looks quite good.
Yep. MX900, mouse bundled with the DiNovo bluetooth keyboard
Quite a lot of tasks can't be that easily done with the keyboard only in MSWindows environments, and that's without mentioning the fact that most website have shitty (at best) mouseless navigation... even with Firefox's godsend Find As You Type...
I never had any problem with my MX1000, except when it's closing to out of range (>2m from the reception pad, roughly).
If yours has problems, do contact the Logitech post-sale service and ask them to change your mouse, very early versions had problems indeed. Don't hesitate if you really are suffering from that issue, they have one of the greatest service I've ever seen (even though I haven't had the need to use it myself yet, and I damn hope I'll never have to)
The only issue that may arise for the non-earliest versions is that the laser actually tracks too well, and can still track (or try to) when the mouse is ~1cm above the surface, which gets really annoying for fast-paced FPS players that move their mouses around a lot. Other people won't give a damn about that (I sure don't)
MX700 isn't bluetooth, MX900 is. For the future of BT, Logitech is preparing a Bluetooth MX1000 for it's new wireless keyboard/mouse kits (Cordless Desktop MX5000 and DiNovo Media Desktop Laser) both using Bluetooth 2.0, they should become available soon. I don't know if the BT MX1000 will be available as a standalone mouse though.
From what I read in this thread, multi-button mice don't actually require any kind of drivers to work with Linux, the extra buttons are supposedly handled out of the box, you 'just' have to find how to configure them
Been done already, MX1000 has a rechargable battery and you put it in a cradle, and the new G7 has 2 batteries that you can plug out (and plug into the charger), aka you can use one while the other one is recharging (battery loading is much faster than battery consumption so that's not a problem).
I, for the life of me, can't begin to understand why the heck they went back to regular batteries for the MX610...
Heaviest wireless mouse I know of is the MX1000 with 175g I think, then you have the wired G5 with weights you can hook into the mouse to make it heavier
Has built-in leds telling you the charge of the mouse too.
While MX610 features regular batteries, MX1000 and G7 both use accumulators (or whatever that's called), one stuck in for the MX1000, and 2 that can be pulled out for the G7 (which mean that you can reload one when using the other), no more paying for regular batteries.
MX610 has the same sensor as the previous MX1000: laser. They can track on any surface, including most mirrors (no it's not a joke), usually don't care about reflective surfaces that regular optical choke on and are overall much more precise...
Oh, and while MX1000 only has ~2m range (FastRF technology) MX610 should have a BT-type range of around 10m
Scrape the USB part, they also work perfectly on PS/2
While 10 buttons may seem a bit too much for a 3buttons mouse user (just as 3 buttons looked horribly complicated to a Macintosh user until Apple released the Mighty Mouse *wink*) you get addicted to them really fast, i'd say that 5 buttons is a bare minimum for me nowadays (with 1 button mapped to double clic and 1 to "close application").
Now 15+ buttons... well i'd have to try but I doubt being able to use that one.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/technol ogy/documents/US/EN,CRID=1762,parentCRID=810
About the other features, while the new buttons are ... discusable (even though they pave the way for more interresting features, it's probably the first cordless mouse featuring 2ways communication)... such thing as the buttons, computer' power check (to go in standby or off mode), laser tracker (instead of the classical optical one) and BT-like range from the 2.4GHz band (Logitech's FastRF range was around 2 meters) are what i'd consider "useful" features. If you have never tried that kind of things on a mouse, stick to the 2buttons + wheel and shut up.
You probably haven't seen a Logitech mouse in a while now have you?
The MX1000 already featured no less than 8 buttons plus a tilt wheel, did indeed require you to install drivers to tune said buttons, and does fall back to extended PS2 (makes use of default action on some buttons, like MS mouses) when drivers are not installed.
610 will be the same.
No thanks, please ship him to Venezuela instead, they'll more than likely welcome him with much joy and parties and feasts.
Said distros are sold that price for price of the support and documentation that come with them (support you don't have when you buy WXP Home), and sometimes for price of paid softwares bundled in the package, not for the distro itself.
Ah yeah, really hard, I mean you have to click on links to Novell from suse.de, really really hard walli walli walli
and everyone clearly knows that one can't find any freely downloadable distro on teh intarweb
I'd even go as far as (?=\s)[A-Z]*?AA(?=\s) in order to account for any future Association of America. Even though few regex engine actually grok lookahead and lookbehind assertions.
I know K-Meleon, I know how fast it is, and I know how featureless it is (and user friendly too, nothing like tinkering in the config files with my good ol' notepad)
It is indeed.
iCab, on the other hand, feature it's own rendering engine
Well, i'm a Firefox use myself but I must say that Opera is much faster than a fully extensions-loaded Firefox (and even faster than a raw firefox), which means that on an old/crappy box Opera will be much more useable than FF and will hog much less memory. Which is nice, because Firefox on a
Having your school subscribe to MSDNAA program gives you free access to just about any MS software. Probably not free for the school (aka you indirectly pay for it), but it's probably much cheaper than every student buying Visual Studio 2003 + MSDN .Net, SQL Server Dev edition, Windows 2k (any version), XP (ditto) or 2k3 (still the same), Visio, ...
It's a promotional scheme alright, but i must say i'm quite ok with that kind of schemes when they benefit me more than not.