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Fishteam gets a new boss who rubs them the wrong way on Day 1 by saying he knows &everything about computers.& So they figure a little prank should be harmless enough. They put a tiny wireless mouse receiver in the back of his computer, and then wiggle it from time to time while heworking, causing his cursor to jump around the screen.

Boss tears his PC apart a few times looking for the source of the movement. Time goes on, and the team goes through three different office moves, where computers had to be completely disconnected and set up again, which the boss does himself for his own PC.

And one day he does indeed find that little USB dongle. It took him about two years.

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Apple late last week joined its operating system rivals when it announced that its annual developers conference would not take place in a physical you-are-there format.

The Cupertino, Calif. company said that the "current health situation" — it did not use "COVID-19" or "coronavirus" in its statement — "required that we create" a venue-less get-together.

"We [will] create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with an online keynote and sessions, offering a great learning experience for our entire developer community," wrote Phil Schiller, Apple's senior marketing executive, in the statement.

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Microsoft today claimed that Windows 10 powered a billion devices, a milestone the company originally said it would meet between one and a half and two and a half years ago.

"Over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than one billion active Windows 10 devices," asserted Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president, in a March 16 post to a company blog.

The bulk of those devices were undoubtedly desktop and notebook PCs, although Microsoft also tallied Xbox game consoles, which run a version of Windows 10, as well as extremely niche devices, like the Surface Hub.

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I&m one of the roughly 5% of Americans who work full time from home. I&ve been doing it for 30 years now. If I could manage it with a 28.8K modem internet connection back in the day, you can do it today in the age of broadband.

Herehow.

Broadband: You need the internet to work successfully from home. The faster your connection, the better. If you live alone — or at least if you&re home alone during your normal working hours — and if your work is mostly text-based, a connection of just 5Mbps should be enough. But if itthe coronavirus thatkeeping you at home and you have a partner whoalso working online and kids with little else to do than stream Netflix or Disney+, you&ll need more, at least a 25Mbps connection.

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(Disclaimer: Microsoft is a client of the author and says Bill Gates saved his job as a first-year analyst. But he also says Gates never gave him a promised tour of his house.)

Bill Gates resigned from Microsoftboard of directors last week, pretty much ending his official ties to the company he co-founded. He says hestill available as a technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, but otherwise hedevoting himself completely to his other pursuits, like philanthropy.

Gates and the company he started very nearly 45 years ago with Paul Allen transformed the computing landscape. Throughout the period of Microsoftearly growth and maturation, Gates was at the helm as CEO, demonstrating business leadership and competitiveness that, even more than technology, were keys to the companysuccess.

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I think some enterprise professionals who have never worked remotely will find doing so stressful. I hope this short collection of apps will help you through the experience.

It's important to note that remote working is improved when the people doing the work feel as good as they can in the circumstances they are in.

Try to relax: Buddhify

Given his ascetic lifestyle and deep veneration for the work of Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, I&m willing to bet that AppleSteve Jobs practiced meditation. At times of stress, meditation can help you tune your mind, body and spirit into one frequency.

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