How-to: Create a keyboard shortcut to toggle touchpad on Ubuntu

I recently got myself a new laptop, a thin and light one. The best thing about it is amazing portability, so I don’t want to hinder it by carrying tons of accessories such as mouse all the time. That means relying on built-in touchpad. And what is the most annoying thing about touchpad? It’s so easy to touch it involuntarily while typing and move the cursor away. Yes, the software that controls the touchpad can disable it when the keyboard is used. Also, there are various sensitivity settings that can be tweaked. But still, it’s not perfect and you get the cursor moved and UI controls clicked by accident, if you’re not careful enough. So, it’s better to disable the touchpad completely when not needed.

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Git-Tfs - Exclude certain branches from migration

The time to migrate from your TFVC repository to GIT has come. Great! The process is quite straightforward. You can get all your source control history recreated in GIT using Git-Tfs. The tool can even include the changesets from the branches that has already been merged. But, what if the process fails on the specific merge changeset or you want to skip some of the branches?

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