Heh heh, Sony's gettin' shafted!

It was Hiro!

I love my Logitech MX1100R, it's an office mouse AFAIK, not really a gaming one, works great in gaming and standard use. Comfy, replaceable batteries and the extra 3 buttons are handy in some games. It was a bit pricey but I haven't looked back because it's so comfortable to use for extended periods.

Buying 'bling' mice to me personally, like "high performance gaming ram" is just stupid.

Oh, more for the 'just in case' factor / there might be something on the original install I may need, but yes, I wouldn't push on the bloatware to others and I haven't done so in the past.

Apart from the obvious reasons, one of the things that vendors should take seriously is the initial impression a bloated system has on their reputation. Joe Average is going to get a bitter taste in their mouth when that fancy new laptop is bugged down with crap.

What they should really do is have a Startup menu on first boot that shows a list of special deals & promotions with quick and easy download links for popular free and commercial software and/or have the installation files on the drive that one can delete, but definately not pre-installed.

It doesn't bother geeks, the first thing I do is image the drive (in case I want to re-sell the machine) and slap on a clean image of my OS.

He was just playing Dig Dug ;)

>Now get off of my lawn.

okie dokie dukie :)

Duke Igthorn is NOT going to be happy when he hears about this!

I overclocked mine and it split :(

Hey, thanks for introducing me to tmux!

I read it as boning a mosquito :(

Pfft, nVidia have been doing that for ages! And now with 3 way SLI I can do 3 slices at once!

If you could tie this in with your OS with some useful tools so that it could make a useful profile for your desktop environment based on your visual acuity.

I'm legally blind myself (-23 diopters in both eyes) and I also sometimes help visually impaired kids customise their desktops for better use.

Obviously there's no one size fits all approach and configuring DPI, colour etc; in a UI is a very personal thing but I'm sure this could be of use for PCs and even cellphone user interfaces.

..or receiving a letter from your ISP because you were downloading illicit wetware upgrades.

Hey, a guy can dream :)

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No route to host.

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"Installing service pack 3"

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