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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! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"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.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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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)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"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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Are you going to repeat this one on Jan 3rd?
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Not bad! It was cute when I first heard it around 1972, but it's getting a little long in the tooth.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah, I'm getting a sense of dejá pooh* here ...
* "I'm going to hear this sh*t again..."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You don't have enough reputation to post jokes in this forum. So, your jokes (or whatever else you send) are bad by definition. By the way, they may be actually bad - I have no idea.
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They are supposed to be bad... They are Dad Jokes, they are made and told to make us groan and roll our eyes...
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