>>>>Why no USB mice?
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>>>With everything else having gone USB, you never have enough USB ports. I'd so much prefer that the mouse uses the mouse port and leaves the USB free.
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>>>Presently, I'd love four USB behind, for printer, webcam and other permanent attachments, and four USBs in front, for stuff that may come up (Dymo printer, sticks, players/chargers).
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>>Yes, I guess I don't really have USB problems because I try to network as much as I can, but I can see your point.
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>There are times when networking under Windowses is just a PITA. One of the machines was set as a browse master at some point; regardless of whether that machine is on or off, other machines may or may not see each other, but in the errorlogs I'll find that the cause a network resource is unavailable is some sort of arbitration involving that machine (which is now mostly turned off, but the network is still erratic). My Ubuntu box sees some of the shares on my desktop, and doesn't see other shares on the same machine.
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>Instead of wasting hours when under a deadline (somebody's homework, or copying a file to a laptop to carry, or simply printing a file. Knowing from experience that fixing a network under Windowses can sometimes take days, it's sooooooo much simpler to just copy the beast to a thumb drive and walk over.
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>In floppy days, that was called frisbee network.

Also SneakerNet.