[ale] [SEMI-OT] coffee+sales person+laptop......not good.......

[Synco Gibraldter]

looks like one of the directional arrows... they look like that.

At 04:30 PM 10/7/2003, you wrote:
>Hey guys, I had a sales person spill a full cup of coffee (cream and sugar 
>please) into a laptop...
>
>I can pretty much get the machine to boot....a little unstable at times 
>(Win2000) Well, I installed Redhat 9 to do some troubleshooting...
>
>It appears as though it has a key stuck, although it doesn't show up in a 
>text editor... when I boot up or go to a vitrual console, the character 
>string ^[[[C repeats over and over...
>
>^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
>^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
>^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C^[[[C
>
>etc....does anyone know from this which key it might be?  I am suspect 
>that it is the left CTRL key...but who knows....
>
>thought i'd give it a shot and ask you guys... Thanks in advance.
>
>Keith Morris
>Creative Director
>Design / Effects
>IQ Television Group
>http://www.iqtv.com
>
>
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