[email protected] writes:

> I was using the laptop and suddenly I noticed that some keys were
> putting numbers on the monitor.

Witness my psychic powers of deduction:
You turned numlock on.  The keys were u, i, o, j, k and l, yeah?

[...]

> I had inadvertently hit the Num Lock key whilst typing.

Oh.  You already worked that out.  I am sorry you had to go through all
that.  That really sucks.

FWIW, on machines without hardware displays of the lock status I tend to
run the applet that comes with me desktop environment which shows them
in software.

Regards,
        Daniel
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