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Dear LJ,

Stop resetting my viewing options twice a week.

I picked Dystopia for a reason. It doesn't hurt my eyes. It doesn't require me to sit on my hand to get the drop-down menus to work. It doesn't suck, even though you refuse to update the templates with newer features.

I'm sick and tired of waking up in the morning and discovering that I've been set to Horizon, which is even uglier than XColibur and twice as unfriendly to jittery morning fingers.

Leave my settings alone, please.

Sincerely,
krasota

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explodingcat's work machine is a Dell (Optiplex GX240) desktop running XP.

Yesterday, it turned off on him once without warning. He figured we had a power surge or something.

Today, it's hibernating and won't awaken. The status light is blinking orange. (oddly enough, the monitor's status light is blinking in tandem)

There aren't any loose cables. I'm guessing hardware failure. I'd ask nannar, who supports machines like these for a living, but he's still asleep (and he needs his sleep).

Thoughts?

ETA: my suspicions were correct. Power supply failure. Work will overnight another machine. After spending all morning on the phone with various tech support people, he's now just chilling and waiting to dial into his daily 1pm meeting. In other news, CSC does not support Apple products and cannot help him get the VPN up and running via the iBook. Bad CSC, no squeaky toy.