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My pessimistic self would say no, there's better chances that after a few months, we'll be back to where we were...perhaps with very few exceptions.
Personally (I've mentioned it many times here over the past few weeks) I've been doing it for the last 12+ years. We used to meet once a week at the office (everybody agreed it was mostly a waste of time), then it became once a month, then for the last 3 years or so we've only been meeting for our Christmas party.
My car is 13 years old (14 this summer), and I still haven't cracked 88,000 km on the odometer. Granted, I'm not the type who goes out driving for the fun of it, and I tend to wait until I can consolidate multiple errands before going out. I think I've refueled the car 4 times in the entire last year. Our office is 70km away from where I am, so avoiding driving to and back even once is roughly 2 hours saved. If I had to go daily, that's 10 hours a week that would have to come out of my personal time. What would you do with an extra 10 hours a week?
When working in an office, I rarely brought a lunch, and needless to say unless you eat garbage eating out is a lot more expensive than groceries.
I make myself available over Skype/Teams to coworkers between regular work hours. Some people need to socialize - I get that - but I can function just fine without that. I have the discipline to commit to my work during work hours, and friends/family know not to get in touch with me unless it's so important they would have called my workplace to talk to me during work hours. So that doesn't happen.
And yes, no kids, no wife, no girlfriend, so that's all easy for me to say. But consider my boss has a wife and 4 kids, and (in his own words), if his home office door is closed, nobody's opening it unless someone's bleeding.
Bottom line - I would love to see that many fewer cars on the road being a permanent thing. Realistically...I don't see it happening.
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dandy72 wrote: But consider my boss has a wife and 4 kids, and (in his own words), if his home office door is closed, nobody's opening it unless someone's bleeding. Try that with kids less than 4 years old. It doesn't work.
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Not my kids. So I wouldn't know.
Nor would I ever want to find out.
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My youngest won't get in, because she doesn't reach the door opener. But she will knock on the door, until I open or my wife takes her.
The oldest one opens from time to time because she wants to show me a drawing she made, or ask me if I want something to eat or things like that. She gets said several times a day to not come in, but as I said, being less than 4 years old is almost impossible to comply.
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On my 24" Dell monitor I see two USB ports on the sides. I thought I could use it for connecting my USB pen drives. But the ports are never activated. I tried installing drivers. Nothing seems to work. Any idea?
modified 3-Apr-20 6:15am.
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there's normally a 2nd cable to connect the USB ports to one on the computer
basically it's like those 4-1 USB dongles - but built into the monitor.
the cable probably looks something / almost but not quite like a USB printer cable
- (often a proprietary plug shape on the monitor so you have to buy it from them.)
If you kept the box it should be in there.
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2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
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lopatir wrote: there's normally a 2nd cable to connect the USB ports to one on the computer
basically it's like those 4-1 USB dongles - but built into the monitor. Short version:
"Are you sure it's plugged in?"
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To add to what Lopatir said, it's normally a USB-B connector, and you can buy those cables on Fleabay pretty cheaply - they are also often shipped with wireless printers, so you've probably got a couple lying around if you can't find the Dell original.
Check your monitor manual - you can normally download 'em from Dell if you can't find it - some are USB2 hubs and some are USB3 hubs.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Check your monitor manual
You just uttered the sinful words.
. Just kidding. thanks for the reply
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OriginalGriff wrote: so you've probably got a couple lying around if you can't find the Dell original.
Just found one
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Could it be that they're only to be used for charging?
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It didnt happen either
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I am really happy with mine! Certainly for charging, but the dongle for my wireless mouse/keyboard fits in one socket, USB sticks in another. I can plug in the headset. Every now and then people come with files on 2,5" portable USB disks. I use it for transferring photos from my cameras to the PC.
Many years ago, when PCs were noisy, I put the tower cabinet in the neighbouring room, with a hole through the wall for the cables. My current PC is so quiet that I don't need it for the noise, but the tower has remained there, near the network conection and other facilities. Having to go to the other room every time I want to plug in a stick, a camera, some equipment to be charged, ... would be far less convenient.
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As others have already mentioned, you probably need a separate cable. I'm not intimately familiar with the communication protocols that would be involved, but assuming your monitor is connecting to your PC via HDMI, then there's nothing in the HDMI spec that would allow it to transfer the USB port's data or even present the port to the PC as some sort of emulated USB device. Older connector types like DVI and VGA even less so.
A USB port on a keyboard might work without having to do anything special, if the keyboard itself is already connecting via USB.
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Igorrr - Parpaing[^]
This week's SOTW is a bit of an odd one.
Igorrr just released a new album and it's as eclectic as ever!
Death metal, electronics, classical and accordeon are mixed seamlessly on this new album.
This track, the first single of the new album, starts out as a death metal song with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher of Cannibal Corpse on vocals.
Somewhere halfway it blends in some beeps and glitches and turns into chiptune(ish), an electronic music genre which was inspired by old computer game soundtracks.
While I like it for being half death metal and half chiptune, it's not even the weirdest track on the album.
Here's a bonus SOTW for the real adventurous music lovers among us: Igorrr - Cheval[^]
Death metal, accordeon, electronics and classical singing, this is the new standard to which I will judge all music
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if two (or more) people are isolated together are they then pollinated?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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If they're of different genders chances are they have procreated.
Gen19?
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In 12 years, they'll have quaranteenies ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: they'll have quaranteenies
Isn't that what they're having now to loosen the libido? Shaken not stirred!
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Bee as it may. What they do when they're alone together is a private matter we have no business meddling in!
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Hardware is becoming more advanced but inasmuch needs better software to exploit its potential.
reading the article in today's news: Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots • The Register[^]
c'mon, how long has memory leaks been an issue and still not resolved?
the 787 is touted as the most advanced airliner based on its hardware capabilities
- yet a [probably 50 year] old software bug is bringing it to its knees.
the joke "have you tried turning it off and on again" not so funny when lives actually at risk.
modern hardware is made the best ever by advances that render better performance and reduced failure possibilities Software has had the same amount of time to achieve this too
so why in the same time has software not reduced its failure possibilities???
- wasn't all these new programming languages supposed to fix that per claims: "make that impossible"??
- wasn't new operating systems/kernels supposed to fix that per claims: "make that impossible"??
- wasn't testing supposed to identify areas where potential failures existed and per claims "make broken releases all but impossible"???
there are days when being a software dev brings real shame. Should've gone to law school.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Clearly, Boeings are not running Windows. If they were, they would never last 51 days without rebooting!
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- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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What if some (yet to be found) software condition makes this reboot necessary on the 45th day itself, at the time when the aircraft is cruising at 34,000 ft altitude?
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I was just reading that and more or less thinking the same.
This xkcd[^] came to mind as well.
lopatir wrote: there are days when being a software dev brings real shame This
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