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The d***-less wonders in our IT department rolled out "managed" Chrome a couple of weeks ago. Most web sites (including CP) no longer remember logins between sessions or other preferences.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Jeeze.
Are there any vacancies there?
Tell 'em I wont be applying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 wonderful, one of my old favorites. i have wondered if Tone was an influence on the emergence of rap. in my head, this song connects with some of the great 1950's surreal story-narrative songs like "Poison Ivy," "Li'l Egypt." 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Thank you 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Wow! Whadda small world. I also watched Funky Cold Medina today - but that was hours ago and I've only just read this comment.
Beasty Boys - Sabotage was suggested as a response to something, but for some reason I thought of RUN DMC's It's Tricky - probably in part after watching Penn and Teller's Fool Us last night. Lo and behold, Funky Cold Medina was a suggestion that I jumped at eagerly. Funny thing is - didn't care for either of them when they were released. They've long ago become classics.
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Thank you
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: RUN DMC - Walk This Way (Video) ft. Aerosmith - YouTube[^]
Always enjoyed this, but also also liked how it is featuring Aerosmith, the band that originally wrote and performed the song and Run DMC turned up wearing Adidas Rome running shoes and people lost there mind.
Reminds of that part in Delirious where Eddie is describing talking about Stevie Wonder and Black People lose their mother elephanting minds.
Aerosmith wrote the song, performed the song and Run DMC added a couple of spoken word lines. Now no one thinks of that song and thinks of Aerosmith.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Aerosmith wrote the song, performed the song and Run DMC added a couple of spoken word lines. Now no one thinks of that song and thinks of Aerosmith.
Quite right, too!
How dare real musicians (who can even read music!!!) play real instruments in pop songs! 
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But it's still unmistakably Aerosmith, with or without DMC
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I think I'm not the only lefty with a laptop so please fellow lefty coders how have you solved this problem: when I use a mouse I do what most lefties do and swap the mouse buttons so my primary button is on the right. On my laptop and on most laptops I've seen in recent years, the touchpad is in the middle and the primary button is to the left where my 'good' hand is, so I don't have a need to swap buttons.
The biggest problem is when I RDP into my desktop where the mouse buttons are swapped because I use a mouse on the desktop. I have to 'un-swap' the buttons only to be annoyed the next time I go to my desktop and have to swap them again. I think I found the shortest key combination in Windows to swap mouse buttons (try: Winkey+I, 'm', 'o', down arrow, enter, 'r' or 'l') but it is still annoying.
Apart from enduring, do you have other solutions?
Thanks
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Swap over the wires leading to the mouse and hope? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Better yet: swap the wires going into my brain.
Thought of that but I kind of like the way my brain is wired.
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I am not a leftie but I regularly swap mouse hands so I don't end up to wonky.
I don't swap the mouse button assignment, I simply move my index finger across to use the left mouse button - it means I don't have to remember to swap to using a middle finger.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I don't swap the mouse button assignment, I simply move my index finger across to use the left mouse button - it means I don't have to remember to swap to using a middle finger.
I did that for about 10-15 years starting in the mid 90s; but RSI. 
Since then I've used various re-mappings: first at the OS level; more recently either done in hardware (Razer left handed mice), or in fancy mice via device specific configuration software (Logitech G903).
I know the former worked great with RDP both incoming and outgoing from my machine, although with the only left handed mouse Razer sells at present being new old stock from a decade ago and their reliability being kinda meh I hesitate to recommend them today. I'm not sure how the G903 would behave with remote sessions; but AFAIK it's reprogramming what the mouse itself sends to the OS, so I'd assume it's transparent.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I am a lefty and I use my right hand on a mouse and on the touchpad (never needed to swap buttons). That leaves my left hand free for typing, eating and drinking.
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That's not a bad idea.
I think I'll try out using the mouse with my left hand.
Of course, that means I'll have to move and rearrange everything...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We lefties have to adapt to living in a right-handed world.
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I had to "adapt" earlier than most.
I could read and write (left-handed) before I went to infant school, and they forced me to write with my right hand, and unlearn written English, because ITA[^] was all the rage.
Careful, reading the garbage on the end of that link. The morons who support ITA actually believe they're clever, and doing wonderful things.
When I was five years old, they achieved the magnificently brilliant end of making me stupider and less able to communicate.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Same here. Additional benefit is that I can walk up to someone else's machine and not be thrown off by the mouse (mentoring/support/etc.).
Think it started with my initial exposure to PCs being machines that were shared and mouse was always to the right-hand side of the keyboard. Reinforced when started getting "egronomic" mice that couldn't have buttons swapped and be physically comfortable for left-handed use. Plus I believe "lefties" are generally more ambidextrous than "righties" - but couldn't say if this is due more to genetics or conditioning from necessity. Thankfully, was never forced to write with my right hand - THAT would have been a disaster!
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use the mouse upside down on the underside of your desk?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I constantly run into this problem and it's quite annoying especially with multiple chained remote connections. Depending on how many chained remote sessions I have the result is often different. In other words, first session swaps the keys first time, the next chained session swaps them again and so on...
Perhaps a small utility would ease the pain 
Small utility to swap mouse buttons
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That's a cool little utility you made! Thanks, I'll give it a try.
I think the problem stems from the wrong way people (including Microsoft) have been looking at this issue. Instead of calling them "Left button" and "Right button" they should have been called "Primary button and "Secondary button". Linking them a left or right should be a device dependent thing.
For instance, now I'm typing on my laptop with a touchpad where the primary button is on the left and I have a mouse with a primary button on the right. If I connect to another system I'd like to have my primary button doing the primary button functions on the remote system, irrespective of how the mouse is configured on the remote system.
<rant>
I think we, left-handed people, have been subjected to a lot of abuse from the right-handed majority and it only due to our superior abilities[^] that we've been able to cope with that. Form scissors to kettles, all the way to numeric keypads and mouse design, objects for left-handed people are either hard to find, nonexistent or ridiculously expensive.
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Decades ago, when I had to interact with users, I learnt to use the right handed mouse with my left hand. Index finger does all the work swapping between left/right/middle controls.
This allowed me to move from desk to desk without changing the mouse setup. It also insured that I am too slow on the mouse to be a competent gamer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I'm right handed but have been using the mouse left handed since 1992, I don't swap the mouse buttons so I never have to change it on any mouse I have to use. I don't have to think about what button I am clicking and find it completely natural.
Have half a cup of harden the elephant up and you'll be fine.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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