Oh come on...so I finally bring home a port replicator from work so I can fix my cable, keyboard, and mouse situation and actually reclaim some desk space. For reasons unknown, the IBM laptop on the device itself doesn't have a ps/2 keyboard or mouse port, just USB, so I couldn't plug it into my KVM (keyboard-viedo-mouse switch; control 2 computers from one keyboard, monitor, and mouse).
So now I plug everything in, and in a seemingly never-ending parade of PC frustrations, my current keyboard doesn't work with it for some reason. Well, to be more specific, it doesn't work through the kvm switch with the laptop. WTF? Plugging it straight into the laptop works fine...so I think, well it must be the switch. But trying another keyboard through the switch works fine. It's only this particular keyboard, through the kvm switch.
Sonofabitch. I've never seen an "incompatible" keyboard before. They either work or don't work. This blows.
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