Where’s the peanut butter?!

Read At Work, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

I don’t know whose need to read poetry is so dire that they are willing to wade through T.S. Eliot in PowerPoint fashion, but it’s nice to know that they can find comfort from readatwork.com.

I’m in heaven. I don’t know what part of Linux is broken but since this never happened to me before when I only worked with my Evolution (keyboard) in various multi-Windows machine configurations working with the (up to now) excellent software based keyboard/mouse sharing application, Synergy, I’m going to blame this on the introduction of Linux.

Symptom: after some unspecified period of time or apparently very hard to capture key sequence, my keyboard starts behaving as if the ctrl key is locked. “w” becomes “ctrl+w”, etc. which sux0rs.

Old workaround: unplug my Evolution, plug in a separate PS/2 keyboard, press the ctrl key a couple times, reconnect the Evolution.

New workaround: in X (on Linux) press ctrl+alt+F1, then alt+F7.

This seems to be a pretty well known workaround for whatever the problem is and now that I’ve found the better workaround I can eventually research what’s causing this and finally - make - it - stop. Or I suspect since I’ve maligned linux there might be some fanboy out there who might come to its rescue and tell me exactly how easy it is to recompile my kernel and make everything work But for now, I don’t need to climb under my desk six times a day to work around this, so my mood is describable as “transcendent woot.”