Reasons not to leave your laptop unlocked around cats, #243

[brooksmoses]

I went to unlock my laptop this morning, and when the screen came up, the login dialog box was upside down. (Also, caps-lock was acting rather strangely, and it took a few cycles to get that right.)

There is something really quite unsettling about having one's login box upside down on the screen.

After I got logged in, I eventually figured out that somehow something had happened to change the display driver settings to rotate the screen 180 degrees. I have no idea what the magic key sequence is to do that, but apparently our cats managed to hit it....

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Thank you! Yes, it's a Dell, that indeed does the flipping.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

We have Dells at work, and I like to do this to people who have walked away from their computers but will be returning soon. (Because if I don't abuse my coworkers, I'll go insane.)