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Laptop without mouse is frustrating
Nothing prevents you from buying another one while away on the road. Even the dollar stores carry them. Even those will be better than any trackpad I've come across.
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I found another way. There is a Wen desktop PC sitting here with a decent screen, full-size keyboard and mouse. I just had to finagle the network/firewall settings to get rdp to work! rdp is better than the trackpad!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Sweet - I live by RDP.
The machine on my desk is an Intel NUC that's driving my keyboard, mouse, 4K 40" TV and 2 24" monitors. All the VMs I work with every day are running on another (headless) machine, and it's pretty cool to be able to RDP into any of them with that amount of screen real-estate. Including machines at the office, which themselves are running rather low-resolution displays.
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Sounds like a really nice setup!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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For some reason my work laptop does not allow RDP onto it when the laptop is connected via VPN.
When I work from home I can't take advantage of the two 27" 144hz monitors that I use for my home PC. It's painful.
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It appears you have no issues using the keyboard
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(4G RAD web sites builders) < (Angular + BootStrap).
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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It depends on the laptop, most newer laptops have very good trackpads (the bigger multitouch trackpads).
I don't use a mouse with my laptop, I've configured 2-finger-taps to middle click, 3-finger-taps to right click which is really helpful.
Also in VS I've configured F1 = goto definition, shft+F1 = all references (ctrl+. and ctrl+, are really helpful keys also [try them out])
The only time I need a mouse is for fine grained form/picture positioning/editing which is much easier with a mouse.
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Thanks for some very good tips! I've taken notes and will try some of them out next week. I'm off to a labor day college football game and am leaving the laptop behind!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'll be in a plane on my way to Estonia
Staying in Estonia for a week and then I'm off for a few days of Saint Petersburg before coming back home.
Coming back on a Thursday and starting work again on Monday.
Vacation be good
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Wishing you a very happy vacation ! cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Thanks Bill
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I've been to both places and loved each of them
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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have a great time - I'd love to see St Petersburg .. I didnt think it was the sort of place one casually flew to though - visa requirements etc
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Thanks!
Garth J Lancaster wrote: I didnt think it was the sort of place one casually flew to though Yeah, we'll be staying there for three days and I think that's also about the time it took to get allowance for entering Russia
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I'll remember his lessons...
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Had a simple audio edition task, and of course, used Audacity[^].
This piece of software has been constantly amazing in at least the last decade. Easy, lightweight, intuitive. I had my editing done in no less than 2 minutes. Awesome.
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I know what you mean - good kit!
Now, if only there was the same for video - I have about eight different tools for that, each of which is good at one thing and weaker at the rest. And none of them work the same way, and some of them won;t work with this format, or that size, or won't output the other, ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The gopro studio is good and easy to work with, but very, very limited with the file formats...
I also use windows movie maker and I have used adobe premiere to some extend. But indeed 1 good tool, I have not found yet.
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I find it just a little ironic that we have programmers complaining that there's no decent software available for a given task.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I was not complaining, I just wanted to say that the programmers really did a good job there.
As for programming SW that I need, well, even if I think I am a decent programmer, it would have taken me at least two months to programm a draft of something like audacity vs. 2 minutes with using it. So...
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I use it to sample the cassette tapes from my old computer. Then I run a program over the samples and reconstruct the original binary data. It works even with tapes that don't load anymore.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I can even write new programs comfortably on the PC and then generate a WAV file from binary which can be played to and loaded by the old computer.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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