[Coco] The Strangest thing just happened?!?

[mike delyea]

That IP (192.168.137.1) is what Windows 7 sets your ethernet to when you
enable internet connection sharing.  Any chance you might have been messing
around with ICS?

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My Local Area Connection aka GBe Ethernet port on my laptop in Windows 7
> was
> just set to 192.168.137.1 instead of being DHCP - all by itself?!?.  I've
> been offline for about a half hour or so when I figured out what was
> happening.  I sure am glad I'm very computer savvy!  What does the
> non-savvy
> people do when things mess up?  I wish more people would call me!  That
> reminds me when I was in high school, we had an ASR-33 Teletype with paper
> tape reader and punch connected over a 300 Baud acoustic coupled modem to a
> DEC PDP8e Mini-computer running Basic!  By the time I could take the Basic
> class, I knew more than the other kids in class.  J  I loved it.  WOW!
> Those
> were the days when I was just born to computers and I was having a ball.
> When we logged on to the teletype, the opening MOTD said, "To Err Is Human,
> To Forgive Devine, But To Really Foul Things Up Requires A Computer."  I
> will always remember that MOTD.  Ahhhhhhh!  J  One night the time was about
> 6pm and I was plowing away on the teletype, and suddenly in walks my
> mother!
> She came to get me!  She was angry, because what had happened, unbeknownst
> to me, the high school was closed and everybody had gone home!  HAHAHAHAHA!
> My mom had to find a janitor and get him to unlock the school so she could
> get me and bring me home.  That was the first time something had ever come
> between me and FOOD!  J   Computers are about the ONLY thing that still
> comes between me and food.  They actually make me forget about eating, then
> all of the sudden - Bam - I'm starving!  J  Well, See you guys later.
>
> Kip
>
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