Posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:53 PM PDT by shego
If you pressed Control-Alt-Delete to log on before reading this, Bill Gates says he's sorry.
The Microsoft founder says the triple-key login should have been made easier, à la Apple's Macs, but that a designer insisted on the more complicated step.
"We could have had a single button. But the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't want to give us our single button," Gates said Saturday during a question-and-answer session to launch a Harvard University fund-raising campaign. His comments have gained attention since a video of his Harvard Q&A was posted on YouTube on Tuesday....
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True, just a console Window. You can use that for SQL or MySQL in Windows if you prefer, or use a GUI.
Yeah, what is THAT button for? Does anyone use it?
True, there are many things you can do from the command line that most people would surprised by. I certainly don’t know what the majority of them are...
The ESCape key is used a lot in Unix systems. Windoze /= the entire computing world.
It's the cats that figure out how to ctrl-alt-del that you have to watch out for.
If cats ever evolve thumbs, they will have lost all reason for their human's existence.
Real men read their eMail with pine and script with vi. “Haarrrrumphhhhh!”
All I know is, after years of using Apple/Macintosh I was forced to use an IBM/DOS machine at work........It was like trying to make stone knives while wearing bearskins.
Seattle Computer Products developed SCP1 DOS on their 8086 S100 BUS Boards before there was an IBM PC. I bought my first S100 BUS computer in 1983 from the company. I drove from Nebraska to Seattle and spent several days at Seattle Computer being trained. Each board was shipped with manuals that gave enough information you could have built your own boards. It had 128k of ram on two boards and two eight inch floppy disks.
As I recall it was about a year later Seattle made a deal to let MS market the OS.
It was very enjoyable then to be in the computer business. Every one was sharing information and experience.
The Seattle Gazelle had a large RED button too. I learned quickly not to allow children to observe it as it was a well lighted button.
My first computers were Trash 80’s.
I installed a faster Ziglog processor in one off them and 64k of ram. All in the keyboard. It made a monkey out of a PC, but would get hot and hang. I was able to solve that problem by drilling quart inch holes all over the keyboard case and soldering large loops of #10 copper wire to various device mounting bolts and heat sinks.
Turning the power back on and plugging in the keyboard and monitor solves about another 5%. ;^(
Heck, you can still get to a DOS prompt in Windows 7. Not sure about 8, but it is still there in 7. I use it on occasion.
Um, with two small pieces of masking tape (hoping they would not catch) and a hole punch. Only good for small errors...
I bow to superior old school knowledge!
Somewhere between making the elevator show up quicker, or like adjusting the dummy thermostat that we install in plain sight in large offices.
LOL! Good one!
Girls! 8<)
Thankfully, Microsoft never gave their users error messages starting with PANIC! But my favorite Microsoft error message was
Not enough memory to
That was it. Nothing else. System froze.
That was it. Nothing else. System froze.
My favorite microsoft error message was a pretty common one.
"File exists, or file not found"
OK. so. the computer is basically trying to tell you that the file either exists or doesn't. Really useful.
Linus's original code: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.6.6/kernel/panic.c
It took printf-style arguments.
I think that might have been File exists or path not found.
That would be the standard error when trying to create a new file failed.
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