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EdisonRex
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Joined: 06 May 2002
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Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: A Tale of Two Mice |
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The Article
Thanks for your great review, Linda, I found it very readable. |
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BamZipPow
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Joined: 02 Aug 2001
Posts: 16901
Location: Driving EEp all over the place...
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Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Nice... 
What happened to the dead mouse?  I'd take it off her hands if Logitech didn't want it back... |
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pcfreakshow
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Age: 20
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:20 am Post subject: |
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Nice review. |
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yiayia49
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Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Posts: 2656
Location: East Coast USA
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Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Linda, what a thoroughly readable and informative article. I can't imagine myself having thought so deeply about mice, but then I am not a gamer. I have two Logitech mice, (have no idea what the model numbers are) and both are wireless (because I have such a messy desk I got tired of picking things off it at every sweep!)
Logitech now has a PS2 connected wireless one, but when I tried to buy one a little over a year ago, they didn't have one and I had to get a wired version. It was the major reason, retrospectively, that I got rid of the KVM switch I had, which only accepted the PS2 version. Now, without the KVM, I have two keyboards, two mice, and two monitors so I can multi-task to my heart's content, though I keep annoying people on CHAT because I am still confusing the keyboards!
I love the way you included so many pictures. For me, a visual learner, that was great! I hope to see more articles from you! |
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thriftyjack
Butt Sniffer
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 1059
Location: split between personalities
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Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Well written and highly informative. Thanks Linda. |
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T
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Joined: 17 May 2001
Posts: 15915
Location: Airstrip One
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Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Thanks to that review, I now know to avoid both of them.
The "better" mouse has only one side button, not two, which is a deal-breaker. The other mouse, which has two side buttons, has poor radio reception according to the review. |
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Linda
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Joined: 15 Feb 2002
Posts: 1300
Location: USA
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Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad if the article helped, Toxin.
I really do like both mice, though. I absolutely love UberOptions which I suppose is only for Logitech mice.
Bam, why would you want the old mouse? PM me if you really are interested... |
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CMTG
Leg Humper
Joined: 23 Feb 2002
Posts: 4823
Location: On average, Cheltenham.
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: |
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I've had a positively hellish time trying to get the extraneous buttons on Logitech pointing devices to work under Linux. And they still don't.
Anybody have any success in this area? |
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anglachel
Guide Dog
Joined: 08 Nov 2003
Posts: 8131
Location: MN
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Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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CheeseMonger The Great wrote:I've had a positively hellish time trying to get the extraneous buttons on Logitech pointing devices to work under Linux. And they still don't.
Anybody have any success in this area?
I've done it with my mx1000...
Not recently but I have done it...
involved getting the codes for each button with xev, and then setting them up properly routed with xmodmap, at least for the back and forth (mapped them to be alt+left and alt+right respectivly) the otherone required something like lineak to make them actually call programs and what not...
I don't have it setup on my current linux box though... Maybe I'll go through and do it again and write up a how-to for it, if I do I'll try for something gerneric so It will work with more then just the mx1000
EDIT/UPDATE: Looking into setting mine back up on Debian etch, I discovered that all I needed to do was update Xorg, and remarkable everything worked...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "MX1000"
Driver "evdev"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "Phys" "usb-*/input0"
EndSection
it wasn't that easy last time. |
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anglachel
Guide Dog
Joined: 08 Nov 2003
Posts: 8131
Location: MN
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Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:18 am Post subject: |
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so the MX 1000 is dead. At least the scroll wheel is...
Long live The MX Revolution!!!
got it setup on Debian last night, and it is working Awesome. took a little while to map the keys like I wanted... and I'm still not sure I want to leave them like they are, but it is a nice mouse.
not having a middle click drove me crazy so the "search button" is mapped to mouse button 2 now... still doesn't feel quiet right, but I think I can get used to it. |
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the taz man
Butt Sniffer
Joined: 16 Nov 2002
Age: 33
Posts: 1259
Location: CT, USA
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Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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anglachel wrote:so the MX 1000 is dead. At least the scroll wheel is...
Long live The MX Revolution!!!
got it setup on Debian last night, and it is working Awesome. took a little while to map the keys like I wanted... and I'm still not sure I want to leave them like they are, but it is a nice mouse.
not having a middle click drove me crazy so the "search button" is mapped to mouse button 2 now... still doesn't feel quiet right, but I think I can get used to it.
/me smells death and decay...............it can only mean ..........ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!! |
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JustAnEngineer
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Joined: 27 Jan 2002
Posts: 4483
Location: Heart of Dixie
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:15 am Post subject: |
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