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Actually, in many different things, that happens rather a lot. Here's another example... Morse Code vs SMS Text (I realize it's off topic for mice... but it does prove this point)

Ok... I can see I've hit a nerve here. Please accept my apologies if I've insulted your favorite OS, that was not the intent. I was merely offering an opinion that because linux has made very little actual penetration into the home user market, perhaps some gaming companies don't see porting...

No problem ... But I would remind you this isn't about difficult office tasks, the original commentary was about why games manufacturers are passing on Linux. I'm quite well aware of things Linux does better than windows and visa versa. But games isn't one of them.

Wellll... there is the little matter that an $8.95 rolling ball style mouse will track on glass better than just about any other surface...

It's most likely because Linux has never reached a market share where professional grade development on it makes any sense. Even though more than half the internet runs on *nix OSs there aren't enough home users of the OS to make much of anything worthwhile from a developer's point of view...

Actually if you look in the article there is a link to a beginning database by one of the articles contributors... Perhaps you should get in touch with him and see if he's interested in expanding it.

Yes it is. One of the favorite tricks is to produce a "top end" unit and an "el-cheapo" version based on the exact same design. The cheapy will have lots of PNIs (Part Not Installed) in evidence on the board itself and may have lower rated or even unmarked parts on the board. (Unmarked...

That kinda sounds like an issue with poor supply isolation in the analog portion of the sound card. Basically the digital hash from thousands of signals on the motherboard is leaking into the analog outputs of the card. A problem that could have been solved at factory level with a simple...

Which port is giving you the problems? I noticed the "expansion port" and Acer doesn't even mention it on their website. Weird.

Yeah... just like in the transistor days... a bag full of 2n2255s and some assorted power transistors and you could fix anything... Man I miss those days. Now you throw out entire sub-assemblies over a burnt resistor. As the one who gets to fix some of them, yes I can confirm that random...

Wellllll ... you could call and ask... but I doubt that would bring much joy. Today's sales staff probably wouldn't have the first clue what you're talking about. (The days when a salesmaker needed anything more than a bright smile are long over.) For "store bought" units, check the UL...

No. It will have the same UL approval number. UL is pretty picky... they don't let you have 2 approvals for the same thing or two things under the same approval. Plus with the expense of it, most companies don't bother cheating... As you say this isn't well known so it's no threat to the...

One of the computer industry's best kept secrets is the actual manufacturer of many key PC components. One of the more important of these is the Power Supply. There are actually only a very small handfull of companies making power supplies for PCs and most of the "brand names" you see on the...

Ben, it probably doesn't have anything to do with the Cooler. It sounds to me like a random power supply failure... It happens. Things inside run pretty hot at times especially with multiple high end video cards. I've been using InWin Power supplies for a long time with very little...

Oh my, what a strange feeling... Not sure what this is... It's like ... like I'm impressed! Just kidding around... if it performs up to claim, it's gonna be a real blessing to a lot of business travellers.

It is. But, having a few peanut butter months in my day, please don't ask me to be all excited about it.

Consider this... Many people on Disability, or, even worse, Welfare, have no choice. They pay their rent, their power bill and perhaps a phone bill and end up with less than $100.00 to last them a month. It's not a contrived diet or an experiment for these guys, it's survival.

Also don't forget the sheer amount of electronics needed to drive a computer monitor... Unlike a Television you are dealing with different refresh rates, different pixel rates, very high pixel counts, lots of rows and columns... all of which takes electronics to drive it. Beyond 1080p when a TV...

There it is... there's always room for more as long as it's done right. Get it right guys and I'll be there.... But I would think about a better name than "Rock Melt" before getting too far into this... How about "World View" or something more uplifting?

Hard disks do not like being treated roughly. These are delicate mechanical devices that rely on highly precise alignments to work properly. Dropping or thumping the drive can (and often does) knock the heads out of alignment making the drive unable to read itself. Sometimes the read/write...