There seems to be a bug in VMWare, at least in Linux when you switch back and forth between the Guest and Host sometimes the Alt key gets stuck in the Host, where in the guest the key is not stuck. This simple script solves the problem:
Ok, the problem is simple, you are in China for example and you have a really bad connection from your hotel to your Windows Server or your home computer via a rdesktop connection.
Luckily you have a proxy server somewhere (for example a squid), but rdesktop has NO settings for a proxy server, and it ignores the proxy settings in Control Panel….
Luckily someone pointed me to a nice program with which you can configure a proxy for a program which does not even support a proxy, meet Proxy Firewall, direct download link here .
This happens on Gentoo’s vmware-workstation ebuild installation, like explained here and here the problem is you have dbus running, but not hal, simply add hal to your default startup:
SELECT * FROM test WHERE binary login = ‘SomeCaseSensitiveLogin’
is million times slower then
SELECT * FROM test WHERE login = ‘SomeCaseSensitiveLogin’ AND binary login = ‘SomeCaseSensitiveLogin’
Of course the logical choice would be to have a binary index on login(like in this example of case sensitive searches in mysql), but sometimes the MySQL version is too old or buggy or you simply don’t have the permission to do so, and I even had a situation where this was faster then any other method, but as always it depends on the data you have.
In my example it was a 40.000 rows user database and the search was taking 0.21 secs with pure binary vs 0.00 with this trick above.