aemeijers wrote:
Robert Green wrote:
(Amusing rant snipped)

heh. Reminds me of my confusion when I came home and found my youngest
two PCs on, and I knew I had left them off. There had been a power blip,
because some of the clocks were blinking 1200. This happened 2-3 times
(thunderstorm season in a semi-rural area), before the penny dropped and
I looked in the BIOS on the PCs, and found a setting where one could
choose to auto-boot after a power loss. Guess it is part of ATX standard
for some reason- mebbe for non-attended operations. But the BIOS let me
disable it, so no more ghosts.


We came home once to find our dining room light on, and were sure we had
turned it off. Since we had a problem neighbor at the time, I decided
to call police just to make a record of it. One cop told me the cat
probably turned it on ) Crime stats are probably very artificially
low where I live...good politics for police chiefs, mayors, realtors...