Q: How do I speed up my cursor?

When the arrows, backspace, or space bar are held down, the cursor moves painfully slowly. The computer itself seems fine — windows update rapidly, etc.

A: You can set the keyboard rate with the following command:

kbdrate -r 30 -d 250

Add it to a startup script such as

/etc/rc.d/rc.local
or
/etc/rc.boot/kbd

to have it take effect on bootup.