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MTBF catches up to development.

Intent on finishing the implementation of the new permission token feature into the framework code I was fully engaged yesterday in getting it done hopefully by the middle of this week. That is until a strange occurrence yesterday. As I was at the computer the mouse became unresponsive, I have a periodically flaky KVM switch that some times does this so I switched to one of my other development pc's to see if the KVM was frozen, it was not. I switched back to the main development server and after a few silent expletives , hit the power button as I had no choice. The computer immediaetly began a reboot but at the point of reaching the BIOS screen simply went dead. I was curious but already had a feeling that my computers power supply was in trouble. I rebooted again after first unplugging the power cable from the pc for a few seconds, the machine indicated it was getting power by blinking the power and hdd light, but the hdd light was solid and the screen didn't receive a signal...