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Well if insiders news is a prerequisite for posting here why isn’t that posted in red at the top of this page?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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0x01AA wrote: You can get a replacement for free ...
of Alexa, the penny, or the girl? Assuming the girl isn't named Penny. 
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What about the outlet or the plug? 
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Looks like my motherboard integrated CAT5 connection has failed - all attempts to get Windows to repair it up to sacrifice of a goat have failed.
So, I've got the desktop, but it's got no access to Github, CP, NAS, or half the other stuff I rely upon. 
Fortunately, I have a spare PCIe port, so I'll bite the bullet and go WiFi ... but it's so frustrating having only the Surface to work on, one tiny monitor isn't much good at all (and the keyboard stinks for development). What a way to end a grotty year!
Roll on tomorrow and an Amazon delivery.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: all attempts to get Windows to repair it up to sacrifice of a goat have failed.
Naturally; Windows only accepts sacrifices of cats. 
Don't you have a Wi-Fi USB dongle that you could attach to your desktop? I keep an old (150Mbps) dongle around especially for emergencies like this.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Herself used it.
I haven't seen it since, Gawd knows what she used it for, or where she would have left it... I keep a set of "sacrificial tools" where she can find them, then I collect them from wherever she dropped them, bang them back into shape and of we go again.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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If you want to give the hardware a second opinion, boot a Linux LiveCD/USB.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Even a single small monitor, a cramped keyboard, and a touchpad mouse is better than that! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Didn't I see you in one of the Darwin award videos?
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Nope! You can tell because I'm not actually dead yet ...
They've been claiming "year of Linux" since the early 90's - every year. And still it's nowhere near general adoption, even if you count Chromebook in there as a variant.
It's fragmented (how many variants are there this week?), it needs Windows in a VM to run pretty much any real-world app, and ... to be honest it comes over as a deliberately arcane geekfest that needs a lot of care and attention if you want to keep it running. That may not be the case any more, but just trying to work out what distro to use is enough to send most real-world users straight to Microsoft / Apple / Google.
I'm not saying it's garbage - though it was loosely based on Unix which definitely was - but it's not for me.
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I don't recall suggesting you <gasp> become a Linux puke. Just use it to give a quick hardware test. I am not some zealot for Linux, I just use it, have done for some 15 or 20 years. I run Windows a lot, but in VM's. I think you will find that a huge part of the Internet runs on Linux servers. Well if you ever get connected.
(I now understand why my grandparents moved from Wales to Canada).
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Looks like my motherboard integrated CAT5 connection has failed
It probably still works, it's just firmly connected to the undernet.
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Man I hate it when that happens, it's enough to drive you insane.
But seriously though, this is a hard problem.
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usb to ethernet... moving along
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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... it made me laugh anyway.[^]
(I'm easily pleased)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Got a laugh out of me, too!
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Too funny...poor Coyote!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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You boil the hell out of it...  
This will be of a new series I am doing starting Jan 3 until late May, Dad Joke of the day. So you can groan like your dad is at home.
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If you can keep them original, OK, but please don't simply copy/paste pap the way others around here tend do.
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I'm even not sure about holy water. But I would like to learn more. Please share me some more details. Thank you so much!
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Hey, I haven't heard of that certain book. I'm sure someone has already come up with it. And if I quote from somewhere I will give them credit. I will be making my own, unless I find one that is new and not re-used a million times.
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Quote: Hey, I haven't heard of that certain book
Of course!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 29-Dec-21 9:02am.
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Well I know there are joke books, I been have a Dad Joke book, but I lost that years ago.
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Cp-Coder wrote: This is just a quote from the book: "The Book of Terribly Awesome Dad Jokes!"
Or any of a dozen other places. The first time I heard it was decades ago.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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