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Hi Charlie, I am on the east coast of Florida. The company's head office is a 4 hour drive away. I haven't made that trip since I moved here (very happy to be where we are now - great community). I develop and maintain our test software (hardware testing - thus the stack of instruments). Power is good on my new desk. Under the desk (screwed to the side wall of my sitting location) are 2 surge protector/power strips. One for items that are always on (the aforementioned network gear) and one with the switch near the front so I can easily turn the monitors/laptop power/etc. on and off. There is another surge protector on an other circuit for the printer and instruments.

--- Rob Cole Programming long enough to have built processor boards with wire-wrap.

We took our home office space and put in a built-in desk wall to wall on one side (14 feet long). Printer at one end, network stuff at the other. I have three monitors, work laptop, and a small stack of instruments on the desk. I am so happy to not be in the office (I got remote status and moved away). The new office cubicles (company got a new building) are only wide enough for two monitors with walls only to the top of the monitors and the cube depth is enough for the monitors and a keyboard. Still that's better than the original plan of long tables with monitors and no walls. Anyway, being in the office would not change how I work. My coworkers are in Malaysia and Poland. Project manager is in Austria. Product manager is in Brazil. I am not collaborating with local workers, anyway. I am much more productive at home.

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But, why? Why you need this cable?!

I also prefer a wired mouse. I work in a very RF noisy environment. The office has 440 IT professionals in one room and 3/4 are using wireless mice on the same frequency (company supplied). My wired mouse has a much better and more accurate response. And that's not to mention the wireless keyboards, ear buds, etc.

Interesting. When I search digikey for "fuse", I get a lot of them. Filter on product status: active, mounting type: requires holder, fuse type: cartridge, glass and I got over 1600 hits. Most of them can be ordered as single, but some can only be ordered in quantity. Or, just Google "old car fuses" since cars used to use the same type. Have to keep this old equipment working. I hope it's just a problem with an old fuse for you and that the fuse blowing is not just a symptom of another issue.

Do your design in Blender and then load the model into MeshMixer (another free software package from Autodesk). Select to "Convert to Solid". This will re-mesh the object and remove all internal faces. The mesh will be converted to triangles (no other polygons are allowed), but that isn't a problem for most slicers. Of course, MeshMixer can do much more than that, but it sounds like this is what you need.

I had thought about the German meaning "no" when I heard it. I remember when Windows NT first came out (and did not work very well), the community said that NT meant, "Not Today". I think Microsoft would like to avoid those type of connotations again. Sure, they fixed up NT as they moved forward, but the "Not Today" moniker held on for a long time.

Maybe I'm not as eloquent as I should be to express the ideas bubbling through my mind. There are many excellent points in previous posts (including yours) that state how the applications and the OS should adapt to the environment (read: machine they are running on) and I heartily agree. Despite the fact that I consider myself a power user who is split between developing applications and building 3D graphics and animations (for which I do prefer the big clunky beige box with its amazing power, multiple monitors and multiple graphics cards), I can see that easier to use systems would benefit a majority of users. Until such time as the tablets can perform to the same level as the computers I currently use (and yes, I believe this increase in capability will happen) and business/industry adopts them in a BIG way, the support for all of the possible uses should continue. I know it's easier to support if you can get everyone into the same box, but there are a lot of us "individuals" out here and as many uses for the computers as there are users (almost). I know that industrial computers (rack mounted, big, clunky boxes) are already a niche market and they will not be going away soon. Not until you can connect scads of instruments to a computer without having to add a number of internal cards (USB, Wifi, other RF are still not fast enough for a lot of applications). Alright, kind of random thoughts there, but it's the way I feel. I'm not a stick-in-the-mud but I prefer my tools to be able to do what I want to do and not change what I do because the tools do things differently. Rob Cole Computerized Industrial Test and Measurement Proponent

I've read through all of the replies and I think there is one thing that Microsoft is missing. Look around the office, any office and you will see a lot of desktop type computers (possibly laptops in docks). Manufacturing, design, development, test and measurement all make heavy use of desktop computers either for the power they provide or the ability to connect to instruments/devices. Not to mention servers. The desktop is a lot more prevalent than most people give credit to. Tablets have their place in these environments (I see a tech walking around a factory with a tablet so he can monitor the processes or, maybe, turn a piece of equipment on or off - by talking to another machine), but they are not the machine that is doing the real work. Offices need a lot of typing for one thing. I constantly have multiple applications open that share data between them. Tablets are definitely not good for those types of applications. I think my point here is that the desktop world is larger than Microsoft appears to be thinking it is. There is room for an OS that adapts to multiple environments. What's that idea? Make the machine do the work of adapting - not the people? What a strange concept - that computers could make our life easier. Rob Cole (Yes, I'm a developer from a time when I had to clarify that I did not do photographs)