My MVC and X's keys just stopped working on my laptop! worked just fine what could have happened?

My MVC and X's keys just stopped working on my laptop! Worked just fine what could have happened? It worked just fine then they seemed like they would stick a little then they just stopped!

Now I can't log into my computer because my passwords contain one or all of these keys WTH could be wrong? Asked by JennyMae 27 months ago Similar questions: MVC X's keys stopped working laptop worked fine happened Computers > Hardware > Desktops & Laptops.

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My MVC and X's keys No, I don’t believe there is a silver bullet. But, I came up with an interesting thought exercise while I was at RSAcon that I like to call the silver bullet metric. I asked a number of notable security experts, vendors and analysis and everyone had almost the same reaction, which is that this is worth thinking about, but a hugely complex task to complete.So I thought I’d throw it out there and let the community think about it too.

Let’s take a theoretical situation where we looked at any single security vendor out there and give them essentially as much money as they needed to do a complete global deployment of one of their security products. So if it was an anti-virus vendor, you’d give them enough to put AV on every desktop. If it were a firewall, it would be at every endpoint, and so on.

Now, the metric is a combination of two scores a) how much is the total cost of ownership and b) what percentage of global online fraud has it decreased. Let’s take a few examples. If you put Anti-virus on every desktop in the world, would you stop viruses from existing?

I think any reasonable person who understands how viruses work would say no. It will, however, make the bad guys work harder and iterate faster to get by the filters (boutique malware). So there is actually a diminishing return once you get above a certain level of deployment.

On the other hand, at the very lowest end, if only a few people had anti-virus they would be pretty well protected, because the virus authors wouldn’t bother trying to figure out a way around it. Of course everyone else who doesn’t have the AV is screwed in that scenario.So the right percentage of deployment for anti-virus isn’t global, it somewhere in the middle in that simple example. If we’re talking about firewalls doing proper egress filtering, that would stop some worms from propagating, but it probably wouldn’t solve enough of the problems compared to the other options out there.

If we’re talking about whitelisting applications that can run on computers, that would probably solve a much bigger percentage of the problems compared to firewalls, but the total cost of ownership is through the roof - and who is going to monitor and create all those whitelists. Eesh! But back to AV for a second - AV has the hidden benefit outside of security that theoretically increases longevity of computers.

So AV increases the lifetime of the computer, although the decrease in usability of the computer because of the resources that are being used might offset that number. Anyway, all of that factors into the total cost of ownership. Once we go through that exercise (which is probably best left for the product managers of each product line to do) you come up with a few interesting metrics.

The first is the silver bullet metric, and the second is exactly what the maximum level of deployment that product or service should get to before it stops being an effective tool for the money - because TCO might change depending on how widely it is deployed as well (economies of scale, diminishing returns, etc…). I’m not at all saying I have the right answer, or that I do believe there is a single best product out there, but to be the devil’s advocate, what if we did find that one product or service had the best silver bullet metric - what then? Why would we back any other technologies at that point?

Anyway, it’s a fun thing to think about. Perhaps it’s just another lens by which to look at the security industry through. Of course this exercise has it’s evil twin too - which is the types of exploits that can be performed and their own associated cost benefit Related tags: Tools +, Random +, Application +, Touchpoints +, Information +, Corporate +, Software +, Network +, Events +, Enterprise +, DataCentric +, Conferences +, Cloud +, AJAX +, republica08 +, identity +, federated +, Star +, SDL +, PHNeutral +, OWASP +, Deepsec +, Data +, Content +, Computing +, Chamber +, Breaches +, Bluehat +, Awareness +, All +, 25C3 +, Web + .

The Case of the Failing Disk Drive or Windows Home Server Saved My Marriage I bought an HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server last Christmas, and haven't thought much about it since. It sits on the shelf and is pretty. Actually, that's not totally true, I did upgrade it to Power Pack 1 recently, but that was a 10 minute thing.

For the most part, it's a conversation piece on a shelf in my new(ish) home office. Now, the story. I sold my wife's laptop to Shawn recently as she wasn't laptop-ing much and wanted the speed of a desktop.

I gave her my old Developer Rig with 32-bit Vista SP1 and she's cool with her browsing and her wifely blog and what-not. A few weeks later she comes to me and we have a conversation that went (something like): "This computer sucks. It's freaking out and now it says something about being smart.

Let me tell you, mister, it's not smart. "Ok, wait a second. I go upstairs and I see this.

I'm like, that's weird. The floppy drive is pushed in. That's odd.Whatever.

I blow it off. I go into my stash and pull out a hard drive. It's a 160gig that will replace the 80gig in her machine.

I open it up (it's a tool-less case) and swap out the drive. I can't find my Windows Home Server Restore CD so on my other machine I go to \\server\software\Home PC Restore CD and there's a readme. Txt file that says: "If there is a CD image file (RestoreCD.

Iso) in this folder, it is outdated. To create a Home Computer Restore CD, download the ISO image file (RestoreCD. Iso) from the Microsoft Web site at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=104683."Cool, looks like the Power Pack 1 needs a new Restore CD.

I download it and use the best image burning software out there, ImgBurn and I'm on my way. I boot off the CD and get a nice Windows-looking interface and a wizard. It finds my Home Server, prompts me for a password and somehow automatically (probably via IP or Mac Address or some magic computer hash?) figures out which computer I'm trying to Restore.

It automatically selects WifelyPC out of the list of a half-dozen machines in the house. I hit Finish and it takes like 11 minutes (creepy fast) to restore.Boom.It's back. Total time elapsed, with drive swap, ISO download and burn was like 35 minutes.

If I'd downloaded the ISO back when I got PP1 like I should have, it would have been a 15 minute operation.It was like using Norton Ghost in the old days, except without the DOS driver disk, the network goo, and general hassle. Couldn't have been easier except if there were no buttons to push at all. Problem solved, and I'm the hero.

The next two days involve me fitting this into casual conversation: "Did I mention I brought your computer back from the abyss? Seriously. It's like Tivo.

I just put it back the way it was at 2am on Tues. Isn't that cool? Love me!"Something like that.

I think the Love Me part was implied. "I'm sick of this freaking computer.It's clanking. "Uh oh.

Clanking is rarely good. Actually, never good. I return to my wife's office and see this after opening the side of the case: Sources: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheCaseOfTheFailingDiskDriveOrWindowsHomeServerSavedMyMarriage.aspx .

Dell D-610 J,K,L,: keys are not working, my laptop didnot felldown or water damaged. " "have a mini-notebook an emachine...these keys are not working: A, M.?, L, J, G, F.So, I cannot log into my laptop" "Tools in CS3 worked minutes ago now stopped working. All that shows now is the hand tool and it and it does nothing.

" "My keyboard stopped working on my desktop, can I use my laptop to access my desktop tower?" "My Emprex 8GB flash drive was working just fine (has 4GB of data on it). Suddenly stopped working --can I recover data? " "my hp laptop keyboard kl; keys have stopped working is there any ideas on how to repair this?" "Seven of the keys on my HP laptop randomly stopped working" "I have an HP laptop and most of the keys on the right side number pad are not working.

Only 456 and 0 Help? " "keys are not working" "is there some kind of software which could help me fix laptops? And desktops?

Dell D-610 J,K,L,: keys are not working, my laptop didnot felldown or water damaged.

Have a mini-notebook an emachine...these keys are not working: A, M.?, L, J, G, F. So, I cannot log into my laptop.

Tools in CS3 worked minutes ago now stopped working. All that shows now is the hand tool and it and it does nothing.

My Emprex 8GB flash drive was working just fine (has 4GB of data on it). Suddenly stopped working --can I recover data?

Seven of the keys on my HP laptop randomly stopped working.

I have an HP laptop and most of the keys on the right side number pad are not working. Only 456 and 0 Help?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.