So instead of finalizing with the release of stable Lenny (Debian 5.0) on my home rig, I went ahead and apt-get updated/upgraded to stay on the Testing (now codenamed "Squeeze") track.
I still dual-boot Debian and WinXP, because as much as I prefer Debian for 99% of what I use a computer for, there are still 2 things I can't get to work right under Wine (so anyone who has tips on encoding to Windows Media Video 9 format or getting Full Tilt to spawn new windows correctly, please send them my way).
When I went to bed last night, I left my box running XP. Pure laziness on my part, really; I had played poker after getting the little one off to school, got busy with other stuff, and never went back to the computer. Get up this morning, and what greets me? My Debian desktop. (Yes, I know. Automatic login is not good security. And as soon as I can figure out how to get either a VNC server to show the login screen, I'll turn it off.)
My first thought was power outage. But I look around, Chel's comp is still pulled up (she has the auto-on after power loss disabled); the kitchen clock is still right.
Then I figured it out: Windows Automatic Update. The last time I worked, MS pushed an update which required a restart. I fought for two hours against those Restart Now/Remind Me Later timeouts the other night. Since I hadn't actually been on the XP side for about 3 weeks, it loaded them in the background and restarted. No big deal, except my GRUB defaults to Debian instead of last used.
So, when Windows shut itself off, my computer decided it would rather work than play games: it loaded Linux.
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