Now, if Mr Bill wants an example of something truly obnoxious, I nominate the choice of backslash (\) as the DOS/Windows file separator. Everywhere else, it's the escape character. But MS just had to be different.
Your child or cat could do it at an inconvenient time...
I thought the un-plug to reboot was Gates idea
At some point, around 2K, it changed from a system reboot to a admin control and log in.
A single key system reboot would not be a good idea IMO.
How about we control alt delete Bill Gates.
For those who think Bill Gates makes sound predictions....
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981
Bingo.
How is it that I see that and the great communist... uh, computerist... does not?
Now, if Mr Bill wants an example of something truly obnoxious, I nominate the choice of backslash (\) as the DOS/Windows file separator. Everywhere else, it's the escape character. But MS just had to be different.
Gates also used his time on the panel discussion to take a small swipe at “Silicon Valley billionaires who want to live forever”, saying that his current focus is on problems such as the fact an African child is 100 times more likely to die of a preventable disease than an American child.
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Reducing infant mortality is key to stopping the population explosion in Africa.
CTRL-ALT-Del works and frightens those who have no idea what they do or are afraid of what they might do.
You made the right decision....
This is only funny because it's true.
A properly designed system should only be rebooted if you need to patch the kernel, or when you do hardware mods.
My two home boxes: The first was shutdown after we had a power outage here that ran for more than 30 minutes. (My UPS will run for about an hour but I have a 30 minute threshold to power off in case of a long term outage.) The 2nd was a hardware change.
$ uptime 19:20:17 up 110 days, 4:24, 7 users, load average: 0.20, 0.32, 0.25 $ ssh remote15@pine64 uptime 19:20:34 up 116 days, 22:11, 2 users, load average: 0.63, 0.59, 0.53 $
Windows has made progress in the last few years on this front, but it is still far too sensitive to minor software changes.
It would be dumb to have such an easy way to delete things. I’m glad it takes three keys.
that would actually be stupid
You dont WANT it to be that easy to reboot.
Exactly. Duh. If it were one key, you’d be typoing
yourself into a reboot twelve times a day. Stupid. Good thing he wasn’t designing nuclear launch procedures.