[dba-Tech] 911 -- Laptop issues, cannibalization, and one Tower issue

[Arthur Fuller]

>>  Did you try disabling the touchpad?

Good idea, Peter. I'll look around in Settings and see what I can see. I
vaguely recall such a setting. I had planned on attaching a wireless
keyboard/mouse combination anyway.

My desk is looking sort of glamourous, albeit in a low-budget way: a pair
of laptops, a Nexus tablet and the wireless keyboard/mouse attached to my
ancient trusty HP Millennium tower (which is like that rabbit in the
battery commercials -- it just keeps on running.) My friend Audra calls my
desk "The Bridge", in reference to Star Trek. A glance in that direction
might even suggest that I have not retired. Call me semi-retired, then. I
still receive emails from various head-hunting firms, but seldom respond.
I'm no longer up to those 80-hour weeks that occur as a project deadline
approaches. I was thinking that maybe I could be the IT guy in a house of
ill repute -- IT with Benefits, as it were; but I think I'm too old to take
advantage of those benefits, too. Alack and alas. Once upon a time, there
was fire in my belly, but that was long ago.

A.
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