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Cleaning Coffee from Hardware in Labs and Workstations

We had someone come into a lab with their usual need for coffee and you can guess the rest. I was wondering what you have for instructions for your techs as working best for cleaning dried vanilla mocha frappa latte whatever it was out of keyboards.…
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How can I use the home, end, page-up, page-down keys on Solaris via PuTTY?

I love the shortcuts home, end, page-up, page-down, but I am unable to use them via PuTTY on Solaris servers. Windows PuTTY => Linux desktop via SSH, works fine. Windows PuTTY => Solaris server, shortcuts keys problems. Windows PuTTY => Linux VM =>…
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Inexpensive industrial/medical keypads

Has anyone got experience with manufacturers of industrial/medical keyboards or keypads? I'm trying to find a relatively inexpensive (as in not $200+ per unit) keypad (for bulk order) that would meet the following specifications: PS/2 or USB…
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In the ESXi 5 console, how to press the <+> and <-> keys on the bios screens without the num part of the keyboard?

Sometimes we open vSphere from a restricted terminal that only has a basic ascii keyboard and f1-f12 and a mouse but is missing the additional numeric block on the right side of a big keybaord part and also there is no numlock state. In the bios…
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Keyboard doesn't work after upgrade to Debian Wheezy

After upgrade from lenny to wheezy keyboard and mouse don't work in X (keyboard available before it starts). I looked over internet about this issue and found some solutions: remove xorg.conf…
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Ubuntu configure keyboard non-interactive

Im setting up some Chef scripts to build and configure a Ubuntu 11.04 instance for development. I'm having some trouble finding away of reconfiguring the keyboard with no user interaction. I tried using setxkbmap gb but this resets as soon as you…
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Why keyboard keys are not in alphabetical order?

It seems to be silly question, but i really wonder 'Why keyboard keys are not placed in alphabetical order?' Is there any specific reason?
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Debian-Installation without keyboard?

i have to install debian lenny right now, but i can't find my keyboard for the server (just use a laptop). Is there a way to install lenny without a keyboard? thank you!
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is it possible to set an Ubuntu Server in a computer with no mouse, keyboard or monitor?

Yeah, that´s my question. I want the computer only to have a power source and a network cable. If so, can I install and configure everything from the network interface, or do I need to connect a monitor, etc. to configure everything and then I can…
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Windows 10 - Scripting setting: "Use Previous Version of Microsoft IME"?

We're deploying a fleet of full screen browser based kiosks on Win10. They need to have multilanguage functionality. I've managed to script most of the setup, but there's an annoying problem: The new version of the Chinese and Japanese IMEs only…
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VMWare ESXi not recognizing usb keyboard on install

We are currently attempting to install VMWare ESXi 5.5 on a HPE proliant DL380 gen10 server. The beginning boot sequence appears that it is running fine, but when we get to the first menu option requiring input, it is not accepting any input from…
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H and V don't work on windows server 2012 log on

I'd like to log in to windows server 2012. It worked yesterday but today I couldn't enter my current password because the H and V keys didn't work and my password includes the h. I connected another keyboard, however, the issue didn't solve. I…
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Solaris x86: Non working keys on keyboard (<, >, #, |)

I have a new installation of Solaris 10 10/09 on x86 hardware. The attached keyboard has a normal German layout. The system is configured accordingly by 'kbd -s'. The generic keys (letter, number, umlaut) work fine. Unfortunately some keys like <,…
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Hyper-V CentOS 7 guest has no keyboard in recovery modes

I am working with CentOS 7 as a Generation 2 guest on Hyper-V 2012 R2. Everything runs fine, but I am unable to control the guest when I boot it into certain systemd targets. For instance, if I were to use GRUB2 to…
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Debian keymap changing with qEmu?

Here's the context : I have a Debian 7.3 as the host system (with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8), on which I'm running virtual machines with qEmu (for educational purpose only). I've created a disk image on which I've installed a Debian 7.3 testing. NB : I've…
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