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5teveH wrote: Struggling to keep on track. Any suggestions?
1) Don't go near YouTube ... 
2) STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN! If you want a coffee, make it, and go back to your desk ASAP. Lingering will mean you eat something because it's there and you're bored - and that's a killer for home working.
3) Try a video conference with work colleagues - see if they are in the same boat, and what solutions they have found.
4) Treat "work time" as an absolute - if you are normally there 9 - 1, half hour lunch, 1:30 - 5 then stick to it. If you start to eat into work time for stuff you want to do, it gets a lot harder to get back into it.
5) Take a 5 or 10 minute break every hour - CP is good - in an office there are always distractions, so you probably aren't staring at a screen for the whole 8 hour day. Your eyes, back, brain will thank you!
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OriginalGriff wrote: 2) STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN! If you want a coffee, make it, and go back to your desk ASAP. Lingering will mean you eat something because it's there and you're bored - and that's a killer for home working.
Arghhhh! Just read this whilst eating a Cadbury's Boost! 
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Are you telling us you only spend 5-10 minutes an hour on CP? 
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He's making up for all those missed hours earlier in his life before CP. Plus the 16 hours a day while not at work each get 5-10 minutes too! If you account for all of that it leaves... 5-10 minutes an hour for work.
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I actually get more done working from home.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Don't watch this[^]. It does not end well. They disintegrated a bunch of perfectly good little microprocessors which I would love to have here right now. That never gets boring.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It seems to be the trend that popular websites and mobile apps are releasing desktop versions , yet not so long ago word going around was that desktop apps are dead. We are supposed to be in the Post PC era. It seems winforms developers like me are here to stay. The Post PC era talk was just a fantasy.
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codejet wrote: The Post PC era talk was just a fantasy
As 90% of the Hype-Buzz-Trends
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And don't forget the various incarnations of the Network PC.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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They filled their niche in a time when notebooks were both bulky and expensive - I ame one of the first italian users of the original EeePC and I can positively say that it made my graduation possible. Dumb parents told me there were no money for a notebook yet they expended 3 times the price to change sofa, which was an horrid 5 years old and in perfect conditions. I had just the price of the netbook in cash (parents forbade me to work while studying and never given any allowance, yes I made those money as best as I could escaping their iron grip) and I had no Internet at home, so for me it was a necessity.
It worked as a horse for 4 years, was portable and lightweight and allowed me to know when exam dates had been moved.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have been playing around with stuff from the short period between the old transistor monsters and the c pre PC era lately and could have told you that. They had teletypes and terminals to play with, not browsers, but essentally it was the same game. To someone who knows only how to use a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The irony is that the processor I am playing around with is the granddaddy of all mobile devices. The whole computer draws less power than a few LEDs and can run on batteries for weeks or even months. And that was even before mobile devices looked like this[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The Osborne 1 looks pretty cool
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Only if you are a bodybuilder, as heavy as that thing was. And it was not battery powered with the CRT and the floppy drives. You still had to plug it into some wall.
I like this one here much more: Sandy Robson's 1802 Handheld | COSMAC ELF[^]. That's what people built at home at the same time.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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codejet wrote: It seems to be the trend that popular websites and mobile apps are releasing desktop versions
I must've missed that trend. The closest thing I've seen that you're describing is apps (mobile apps) that are simply dumb wrappers around a web site, so just they can get a dedicated icon on your phone. And then spy on it, but that's another matter entirely.
What "popular web site" have you seen a desktop version of?
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In the sense the planet is now infested with mobile devices (many more powerful than the desktops of yesteryear), and the growing ubiquity of internet-of-things devices you "consume," rather than interact with directly ... I'd say we're definitely in a post-pc era.
But, the mammoths (mainframes/servers) are not gone. The "killer apps" seem to have stabilized around browser, spreadsheet, word/document processing, and "gaming" is an even more major driver of hardware innovation and sales.
I recently made the mistake of installing Grab's Windows app: it required a JavaScript/Browser shell from some gaming company (BlueStacks): unusable, broken. In that case, I'd say the company did not see a native Win desktop app as a priority, given their business model.
«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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One of the girls I’m seeing went to Benidorm over the weekend for 3 days - 2 of which spent in lockdown in a hotel.
Spent all day with her yesterday and she’s got mild symptoms - 95% sure she has it. So I guess I do now.
Think we’re going to self isolate (which means I can’t see the other one) at least I’ll know which one I prefer at the end of this two weeks.
Anyone else directly affected? Are there any bright sides you’re looking at for when you’re isolated
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Pompey 3 wrote: Are there any bright sides you’re looking at for when you’re isolated
Well, I guess having more than one girl ...
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Many years ago when docked in San Pedro (Los Angeles), I phoned the local radio station to get that played. Brilliant piece of music.
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Have you told the other one, just in case you've infected her as well?
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Cant risk having the other one turn up with get-well grapes while hes "on the job"
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Gonna be an "interesting conversation" though ...
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musefan wrote: on the job
Did he mention working at home?
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She’s knows about her, the other one doesn’t.
Have told her I’m in isolation with sally and as I haven’t seen her since yesterday she should be alright (assuming she picked it up in Benidorm and it’s not come from me)
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First day at home for me. No symptoms, just work taking measures and making people work from home.
It sucks.
I like my office desk with my 3 monitors and plenty of space. Small desk at home and I HAVE to use a designated work laptop.
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