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No mice, no problem!

I'm back in Bucharest at the moment doing a little apartment hunting. College is starting soon and I need to secure some lodgings since I wasn't able to qualify for a dorm room(too many failed exams :(  ). Staying at my aunt for now;  it's pretty clear she's not very pleased about it, you'd think that after living together for two years we'd get along better. Still, I'm going to miss this place, I was forbidden from bringing someone over (a huge impediment for a college student) and I couldn't make too much noise or come home late etc. but there were also some good times. I remeber spending a whole winter playing Persona 4 and then 3 or going through Fallout 3 and bugging my friends daily about my awesome Abraham Lincoln hat And rifle.
Ah well, out with the old and in with the new. Hopefully I'll be able to move out soon and get to partying.
On the down side I'm mouseless at the moment. Returning to Bucharest, even for a few days implies that I bring my desktop along since I don't own a laptop. My aunt was kind enough to keep my computer at her place so that wasn't a problem but I forgot to bring a mouse for it (my old Razer Krait died a few weeks back). I can't go and buy one because it's saturday night, I doubt any stores are open. Instead the "Help and Support" option in Windows XP prooved usefull(for the first time) and an alternative was found, something called MouseKeys. Now the numpad acts as a mouse, problem solved !

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I'm back in Bucharest at the moment doing a little apartment hunting. College is starting soon and I need to secure some lodgings since I wasn't able to qualify for a dorm room(too many failed exams :(  ). Staying at my aunt for now;  it's pretty clear she's not very pleased about it, you'd think that after living together for two years we'd get along better. Still, I'm going to miss this place, I was forbidden from bringing someone over (a huge impediment for a college student) and I couldn't make too much noise or come home late etc. but there were also some good times. I remeber spending a whole winter playing Persona 4 and then 3 or going through Fallout 3 and bugging my friends daily about my awesome Abraham Lincoln hat And rifle.
Ah well, out with the old and in with the new. Hopefully I'll be able to move out soon and get to partying.
On the down side I'm mouseless at the moment. Returning to Bucharest, even for a few days implies that I bring my desktop along since I don't own a laptop. My aunt was kind enough to keep my computer at her place so that wasn't a problem but I forgot to bring a mouse for it (my old Razer Krait died a few weeks back). I can't go and buy one because it's saturday night, I doubt any stores are open. Instead the "Help and Support" option in Windows XP prooved usefull(for the first time) and an alternative was found, something called MouseKeys. Now the numpad acts as a mouse, problem solved !

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Windows is full of useful stuff like this, its just so hard to find any of it :) Nice find though

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@Andrela: You'd think that after earning a degree in computer science I wouldn't  get stuck hitting tab continuously like a monkey and getting annoyed that not all modern applications support tabbing through GUI elements. 
This was a great learning opportunity though, I had no idea Backspace was a shortcut for the back key in internet browsers or that you could switch tabs in google chrome with Shift+Tab. I think a tutorial of keyboard shortcuts would be a great idea, do you agree?
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@valentin_rad 
 
we actually had a tutorial in keyboard shortcuts ^^ windows button + tab blows away most people