And I have lost. I am convinced now that there is a very powerful conspiracy working deep within the computer industry, seeking to ensure that I can never, ever assemble a working system including a keyboard with media extensions, wireless mouse, and a KVM switch. The key players in this conspiracy are Microsoft, Logitech, and…

Since I got the hot new AMD Athlon64 system going, I thought I should think about getting one of those “multimedia” keyboards, with the volume controls, etc. One requirement I had, thought at first I just took it for granted, was that the keyboard had to work through my KVM switch. It’s an inexpensive automatic…

I had to exchange the Harmony 628 I bought last week. The LCD contrast just kept fading in and out all the time. Usually out, the point of being completely unreadable. Costco exchanged it for me, no problem at all. The new unit is working perfectly. Since Harmony saves all your programming and preferences on…

I just bought a Harmony 628 universal remote control. Somewhat puzzlingly, I can’t find a page on Logitech’s website about it, but it looks very similar to the Harmony 659 model. Since Logitech bought the manufacturer of the Harmony remotes, they certainly have taken full advantage of Logitech’s extensive distribution channel. These very powerful remote…

I’m growing less impressed with MSI… the video card is fine, no problems there. But all this bundled software… it takes me time to investigate all this stuff to see if any of it is worthwhile. So far, it’s almost universally crap. Why are they wasting my time with this? Would it kill them to…