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My new webcab arrived yesterday, and I thought I'd get it set up.
So - despite the installation instructions being one side of a piece of paper 13cm x 13cm (and the legal bumpf being twice the size, in tiny little writing and repeated in gawd knows how many languages) I managed to get it all started. After all, they were "plug the damn thing in"...
So it starts installing drivers 
And then the software installation. So I check, as I don;t want a "logitech toolbar" or "LogiSearch" - and to their credit neither of these things appeared.
But it wanted to install "Logitech Vid" and since I hadn't heard of this, I clicked the link "What is Logitech Vid?".
And my computer does sod all. And then...up pops IE. 
Why? Why faff with my system and bring up IE when Chrome Canary is open and Chrome is my my default browser? If I wanted to view your site in IE, I'd open it in IE...
And what is Logitech Vid? Dunno - the page it opened didn't tell me.
A quick google did - it's Skype For Logitech. Do I want it? Don't think so.
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I decided to install it anyway, and the final installation step was to set it up.
"This service is not available since 2013, please use Skype instead".
So, you downloaded an installer from your site which tried hard to get me to install software for a service you discontinued over a year ago? Nice one Logitech, on the ball here I see... 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It probably has some ActiveX control that requires IE.
My XVision web browser interface needs IE due to ActiveX. Although you can access the feeds via a standard RTSP viewer if you want to.
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It didn't ask me to enable or install any such, and they are disabled more tightly than Beibers talent...
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Typical Logitech... Great hardware, horrible software...
My primary keyboard, mouse, webcam, and two headsets are all Logitech, but their drivers have always been horribly bloated.
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OriginalGriff wrote: on the ball
Which ball? I see five twenty one five (sorry, (a whim)) balls ...
modified 21-Nov-14 14:14pm.
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That's a lot of...balls.
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Gosh, did you even look at the use-by date on the packaging to see if it was still fresh ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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I'm sorry, OG, I meant the "best by" date, as well the "expiration" date. Of course I do know those are often so hard to read the way they kind of laminate them into the packaging, but I guess they have to do that to prevent tampering. Did you notice any peculiar smell when you opened the little plastic baggie that held the documentation; were any very small things moving inside the page when you unfolded it ?
cheers, Bill
p.s. yes, I'm in a weird mood.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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BillWoodruff wrote: were any very small things moving inside the page when you unfolded it ?
Well yes, but that's normal for paper in Wales...
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Some people I love to be around.
Some I love to avoid.
Then there's those I'd love to punch in the face.
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The question is not who you love, but who loves you 
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Everybody loves me, though I suspect I'll get a lot of type III 
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I can see that here[¿]
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I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love is all around me
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Please no! As we approach the season there are certain films, that included, that are ritually watched in this house for which I have a deep type III love.
This doesn't include A Wonderful Life [for Christmas Eve] or Casablanca [on Christmas Day] that are amongst my favourite films.
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Same situation here, brotha! At least I was able to get my slaver GF interested in Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Dirty Harry, Lethal Weapon ans similar.
But no escape from Love Actually & Co. 
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Wife and two daughters means my opinion is waaaaaaaay down.
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And still you went and bought a telly.
Or was it personal time you bought? 
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I didn't buy a telly, it was free. And now we have the said device it has no where to be set up.
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Sounds like a fallen hippy.
That reminds me of a few lines in a Ralph McTell song:
I met a man the other night
I said "Isn't it a beautiful sky"
Although he agreed, it was just to please me
I could tell by the look in his eye
And his look got colder looking over his shoulder
at me as he quickened his step
So I didn't shake his hand as I had planned
I had to throw a stone instead
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Well, that leaves a lot of people unaccounted for, and makes me suspect you are trying to hide how much love for yourself you are hoarding.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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