Subj : Local Area Connection
To   : Ed Vance
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Fri Nov 17 2017 06:18 pm

Hi! Ed,

On 11/17/2017 07:07 AM, Ed Vance -> Paul Quinn wrote:

EV> At times I've panicked and reach back where the A.C. Connector is plugged
EV> in and Unplugged it, to get ITS attention.

EV> Try that sometimes, it works for Me!

I did once, about two years ago.  On my wife's old Linux PC I got spooked one
morning, probably around 0900 (still before my first coffee), when I started up
Fire Fox.  While FF was starting I noticed on a desktop application called
Conky that an _outbound_ IP connect was being attempted to what looked like a
hacker/smacker/hip-hop gee-whiz dangerous-sounding website!

Wham!  I hit the big red power switch!  (Not really big or red but you know
what I mean.)  I was in a full on panic.  That was the first time the PC had
been powered down in nearly four years.

When I sheepishly re-started the PC later, Linux was smiling at me.  (I could
tell it was having fun at my uneasiness.)  No harm had been done.  The website
turned out to be linked to a FF add-on that I had installed a couple of nights
previously.  I just hadn't taken note of the support website on the first
access.  Oops.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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