Using MSN Messanger on a remote desktop connection

All of my office PCs are running M$ Windows and I used to have MSN messenger on my PC. Today I noticed some strange thing while working on my PC remotely. All of a sudden my messenger was displaying the status 'Away'. Then I tried to change the status to online but it was not changing to the status 'Online'. Then I went to my PC and moved the mouse a bit. Guess what ... the status was automatically changed to 'Online'. I don't know whether there is a configuration parameter for this but it seems that it does not respond to the remote mouse and KB.

First experience with Kubuntu 9.04

I just installed Kubuntu 9.04. Even though I have tried KDE 4.2 earlier this was a fresh installation and become a fresh experience.
Installation was usual no problems at all. But the connecting to Internet from the newly installed system was not that smooth. The package wvdial was not installed by default but networkmanager was there with a plasma widget front end. There was no way to put my Huawei E220 in to business.
I had two options to bring it back to business which I was familiar,
1. Install wvdial manually with all it's dependencies
2. Install knetworkmanager which has a GUI
But both options required Internet access to download the required packages which led me to go with (1) and download all required packages from a different PC and move them manually to the newly installed system.
Following post was very helpful to get the wvdial installed,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=846522 (reply #8)