Automation Adventures

After last week’s problem with the Terminal Services client, I also experienced problems with the cursor keys in the VMWare client for Ubuntu 8.10. This was particularly annoying, since I use Quicken in a VMWare machine, and the selection of categories is much easier with the cursor keys than with the mouse.
It turns out that [...]

I’m using VPN and the Terminal Services client pretty frequently to access my computer at work. As discussed in this article, the Ubuntu VPN setup is much simpler in 8.10. However, when using the Terminal Services client, I had some problems with some of the function keys, in particular the cursor keys.
Now, being an old [...]

My wife posed this question to me about a week ago. She spilt some milk on her keyboard, and wondered what was the best way to handle it.
A little bit of Googling revealed the following steps:

UNPLUG your keyboard. No ifs buts or whatevers.
Try and get as much of the spilled beverage out of the keyboard.
If [...]

So, with all the dangers lurking out there, we all use https connections to our servers, have SSL sessions, use PGP keys to sign and encrypt our email, and run a plethora of scanners to keep our computers virus- and adware-free. But how about a keylogger that picks up your wireless keyboard transmissions?
This is not [...]