Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: OT: For all the Window haters Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:40:49 +0100 Organization: timil.com Lines: 39 Message-ID: <54f16f217atim@invalid.org.uk> References: <54f0e80bb8tim@invalid.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pmasvAIUxFuBRtRQP58fyQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.14 (RISC OS/5.18) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.raspberry-pi:9417 In article , Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:05:20 +0100, Tim Hill wrote: > > Logitech, you would think, fall into this category but I have > > keyboards with unusable extra multi-meeja buttons and no longer have > > webcams which have become driverless and have been thrown out. > > > If you know what characters each key generates, you can usually do > something useful with them. [Snip] Forgive my lack of tolerance but I would expect a keyboard which is said to be compatible (Windows 7-64 in this case) should work in its entirety and not be told "sorry, mate, you'll have to buy a new one if you want to use those extra keys" by support @ logitech who can f*** right off for ever! It's companies like this who make Windows look bad. I am sure that in all sorts of OSes I can use all sorts of utilities to make use of the extra keys but (a) there are not enough hours in the day and (b) 'compatible' and plug'n'play mean what? > > Logitech has become over-priced crap with built-in obsolescence and > > are off my shopping list. > > > I don't mind their prices You can be paying five times as much as for a same-spec non-branded webcam in a supermarket. Oh, and that DOES still work with win7-64 unlike the Logitech which simply does not. Another one of those times when more ££ does not mean better. -- from Tim Hill who welcomes incoming email to tim at timil dot com. * Share in a better energy supplier: http://tjrh.eu/coopnrg * Share in cheaper ethical telecoms: http://tjrh.eu/phone * Have a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/