That Evil Cat
I have a cat that loves to sleep on my laptop keyboard (warm I guess) if I leave it available to her.
I had an incident recently where I left the laptop on during the night and in the morning the screen was displayed upside down. Luckily my ten year old knew the fix, CTL+ALT+arrow key. Windows 7.
Tonight, after leaving the computer on in the dining room for a few hours I found I could not get online using Mozilla but was able to connect to a remote desktop session with no trouble at all. To compound the problem my broadband connection had been shaped due to said ten year old breaking the monthly download limit. I was thinking, bloody 56K! I even tried a Telstra USB broadband dongle to no avail.
I eventually tracked it down to Mozilla; tools/options/network/settings, the proxy connection settings were set to 127.0.0.1 I still don't understand why the remote connection worked.
What are the chances of the cat keying in the correct keyboard sequence to enable the described scenarios? Should I get rid of the evil cat?
Last edited by Two_dogs; 3rd September 2011 at 13:38.