Tricks you can play on yourself, #35

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I use on of the Belkin dual-head KVM switches on my main dev machine, but it doesn't work for setup, so I keep a separate USB keyboard hooked to the system.

This morning, the system began to send "-" characters uncontrollably. I did a bunch of checking - it didn't happen on my Longhorn machine, rebooting didn't help, cycling the KVM switch didn't help.

Turns out that during a meeting, a notepad got moved over on top of the keyboard, which dutifully sent me all the minus signs I could handle.