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Or did I really mean this[^]
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Is the show well cast???
The episode on the Liberty Bell was very funny - it cracked me up.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I barely started working this morning, when my beloved desktop totally froze and gave me a blue screen of death! I haven't seen a BSD in some years. I tried to restart, but the bios did not boot Windows, but tried to boot from some utility over IPv4! It was trying to boot from an OS on the Internet! Yikes!
After some head scratching I went into the bios and sure enough: The preferred boot sequence was: First via IPv4, then IPv6, and lastly Windows. After fixing the sequence everything was seemingly back to normal. Out of an abundance of precaution I re-imaged the systems drive using my latest Macrium image.
It just bothers me that my bios settings were changed. I must confess it left me a little nervous! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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How old is your system? It could be just that the CMOS battery has died. Power off, and either disconnect power or switch off the PSU. Wait 10-30 seconds, and power back on. If you're back to the the previous boot order and the date/time has reset, you need a new battery. They're readily available and normally fairly easy to replace. Worth testing at any rate before you get too paranoid.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Cp-Coder wrote: It just bothers me that my bios settings were changed.
Are you sure they changed? Maybe ip4 was always the first boot option? It's called PXE. Some systems ship with pxe first.
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In almost 2 years this is the first time it wanted to boot into PXE. Something changed the preferred boot sequence in the bios!
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Cp-Coder wrote: the first time it wanted to boot into PXE.
I don't watch my computer boot so if it were me, this might just be the first time I noticed that it tried PXE.
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Interesting. Just this morning, I experienced, on my own system, the sort of freeze that I haven't seen in a solid decade - mouse/keyboard not responding, not even Ctrl-Alt-Del could elicit any sort of response. Unplugged both the mouse and keyboard, still nothing - and this time the CapsLock and NumLock keys wouldn't trigger the lights for them. The mouse is going through a powered hub, but the keyboard is plugged into the PC itself, so that ruled that out.
Rebooted, all fine, and the system didn't report anything unusual, at least to the extent where it could have captured *some*thing in the event log.
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... might ba tima to changa/rafrash tha battary?
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No The computer is not yet 2 years old.
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No Dell XPS
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Perhaps an update of the NIC driver that enabled the PXE boot? The Dell BIOS spots this and "helpfully" puts it in the list?
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Beer, food, and sports (Rugby?).
Something most countries can all agree on, I'm sure.
Cheers.
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Don't forget cricket! It's big down under.
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Cricket? I also heard you have serious problems with frogs, rabbits, and dingos.
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Quote: Don't forget cricket! It's big down under
Nah ... that's just the box 
I'll get my coat ...
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Footy! (God's own game, not that slug fest they play up north)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Another sport that my Swedish grandmother would have derisively noted as having en avlång boll (an oblong ball).
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She might also have remarked on the fact that it's mostly played with the hands, not feet, so handoblong not football. 
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Thank you.
We'll be having a BBQ and lazing about the pool (nice day for it, about 30C).
It's cricket season at the moment, AFL/League/Rugby start in few weeks.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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game heard to cause colds (8)
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I was clearly overthinking it ... 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Good practice for tomorrow, when we'll need unabridged dictionaries. 
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