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Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time
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| Sep 21, 2017
| Simon Sharwood
Posted on 09/21/2017 1:39:29 PM PDT by dayglored
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OTOH (so to speak), a single-key REBOOT key would be all too easy to press accidentally.
Your child or cat could do it at an inconvenient time...
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:39:29 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:40:00 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Most computers I have had have reset buttons somewhere..................
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:41:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: dayglored
Yeah, is bill getting senile?
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:41:52 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
True, but they’re rarely just another key on the keybord. In most cases they’re hidden around back, and some require getting a toothpick or unfolding a paper clip.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:42:44 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
The average user I know would have mistakenly rebooted constantly and caused all sorts of corrupted files.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:08 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: DannyTN
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:31 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
The billgates key, operated by middle fingers on both hands
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:52 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: dayglored
Yeah! And they should add a new key for each CAPITAL letter. I get so fatigued reaching over to push th a Caps Lock key. Aargh!!
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:57 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Save the monuments!!)
To: dayglored
I always assumed the whole point of a 3-key requirement was to ensure it wasn’t done accidentally....
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:44:14 PM PDT
by
Enchante
To: Enchante
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:44:48 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
One Dell computer we had at work, circa 1995, had the reset button on the front, dangerously close to the floppy drive eject button.
There were quite a few instances of sudden rage......................
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:46:51 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: dayglored
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:46:51 PM PDT
by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: dayglored
It is so GREAT to know that everyone’s cat walks on their keyboard just as mine does!!! YES the one key would have been a HUGE mistake!!!
To: dayglored
His real mistake was letting the last usable Operating System die.
Windows XP.
And truthfully, I don’t see how it actually died - it’s been upgraded for military users afaik.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:48:27 PM PDT
by
djf
("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
To: dayglored
Really? Is he stupid? You WANT the interrupt to be deliberate, not accidental. If it had been one button it would have had to have a freaking cover over it so you couldn’t interrupt accidentally.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:49:43 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: dayglored
Yes, I suspect that the original goal was to make it something that would be very difficult to do accidentally.
It just had the side benefit of making many future OS related operations difficult to do intentionally.
Huzzah.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:53:10 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: dayglored
OTOH (so to speak), a single-key REBOOT key would be all too easy to press accidentally.
Indeed. Knowing Gates, he would have put it where the CAPS LOCK key is. It is a sad legacy of IBM/DOS that the Control Key was dislodged from its rightful place.
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:56:19 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: dayglored
Yeah, the “any” key!
Plenty of one finger salutes to go around!
KYPD
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posted on
09/21/2017 1:56:47 PM PDT
by
petro45acp
(" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
To: Enchante
I always assumed the whole point of a 3-key requirement was to ensure it wasn’t done accidentally....Yup.
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