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Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake
CNN ^
| 9/26/13
| Doug Gross
Posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:53 PM PDT by shego
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One button on the keyboard to reboot the computer every time somebody presses it by accident? Sounds like the greatest idea since the Edsel.
Methinks he got lucky that his dumb idea got blocked.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:34:53 PM PDT
by
shego
To: shego
What about NUM LOCK? Useless!!!
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:37:27 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: shego
Begs the question why he didn’t fix it.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:37:29 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: shego
C-alt-D doesn’t cause a reboot, it just opens the task manager and other tools. I think it is fine the way it is because you never hit it by accident.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:38:03 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Psalm 46)
To: shego
heh .... what? .... 28 years later? ... oops ?
Giving away too much money for queers and overseas abortions does that, billy ....
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:39:24 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: shego
What about the Dutch programmer who kept looking for the Ij key?
-PJ
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:40:57 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: shego
Yup! Also, Ctrl-Alt-Del is iconic now.
Sometimes it really is better to be lucky than good...
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:41:13 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: Bullish
I never had a problem with it either.
They have made it easier now - right click on the task bar and it gives you the option to open the task manager.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:41:44 PM PDT
by
Abby4116
To: Bullish
Holy shit, bull .... yer right !
A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the US ... in which country were the survivors buried ?
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:41:57 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: AndrewB
I never used NumLock until I got a laptop. Use it all the time now...
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:42:09 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: Bullish
Yeah I like it just fine the way it is.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:42:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: AndrewB
Numlock is really useful, especially if you’re on a shared system and some people like to 10 key numbers and others like to use those as arrows. Scroll lock on the other hand...
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:43:29 PM PDT
by
discostu
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
To: shego
I dare you to figure out how to completely turn off your Win 8.1 machine.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:43:48 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Ted Cruz for President!)
To: shego
If any one has ever worked with DOS 2.0 (yeah, yeah, ancient I know) in assembler, there were a lot of screwy things in there. Always had to remember sides and cylinders were base 0 and sectors were base 1. 12-bit FATs were screwy as well with the center byte reversed. I could go on but the mistake IBM made was hiring Bill Gates with that sweet heart contract they gave him.
To: AndrewB
You mean NumLock is useless in that you never turn it off, right? :)
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:46:16 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Bullish
C-alt-D doesn’t cause a reboot, it just opens the task manager and other tools. Ah, but it used to.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:46:16 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
To: shego
Now how about that placebo key up in the upper left corner of the keyboard, the one that says “Esc” and does nothing at all?
I used to tap that key over and over when I accidently clicked on a wrong link or watched an hour glass icon for too long, thinking the key was an “escape”, like it would simply stop the computer from doing whatever it was doing and simply return me to where I was. It took me years to figure out it was actually just a dead key that does absolutely nothing. Okay, the joke was on me, ha ha.
Is everybody at Microsoft still getting a big laugh out of that prank?
To: shego
It was just a ripoff of Ctrl-Open Apple-Delete, anyway.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:47:08 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: shego
Bill Gates... isn’t he the guy who said we’d never need more than 640k of RAM?
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:47:19 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: shego
The Microsoft founder says the triple-key login should have been made easier Because it's needed so damned often in Windows!
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:47:31 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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