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XP and its stability... yeah right

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Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Yeah, it used to piss me off that KDE defaulted to mapping the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys but it took two seconds to unbind those keys in KDE Control Center. If you need to use the Linux VNC client to log into an NT/2K server you need to be able to use CTRL+ALT+DEL to log on in. Speaking of using CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in... there's a winner. Microsoft programmers: "let's see, let's make our users press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in." ... "Brilliant idea!"
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Sad but true! how do those guys in M$ come up with these ideas? It's like wanting to piss Windows users more. Not only most of them were fed up with this stupid CTRL+ALT+DEL scheme they had to use it in win2K to log to a LAN or a remote server    :D  . Man those guys in M$ do really have a sense of humour   :D    :D

beltorak0:
I think they figured that the more users gave the three fingered salute, the more they would see this action as a normal occurance, and they wouldn't notice when the system goes down and needs a soft boot.  Next is getting the MOBO manufacturers to rewire the on/off switch to send a message to the kernel to logon.  haha.  "Please press the Off button located on the front of your computer to log in to Microsoft Windows CraPee   "  don't forget the animated graphical logo, in case users (who have been accustomed to those darned crashless OSes) forget how to press the On/Off switch.

One problem I have with the KDE task monitor -- it doesn't pause the things that are non-essential like the windows versions do.  Most of the time, when I need to kill something that way, it is because something is churning the disk so hard that the interface is left out in the dust.  At least the CTL+ALT+[<- BACKSPACE] works very effectively in dumping the x server.  And of course the SysReq Hack if something starts to get a little frisky at the console. I love that thing.  ALT-SysReq-e and the only process that is left standing is "init"....  BTW, maybe it's just a slack thing, but CTL+ALT+DEL is to log off KDE, ALT+ESC launches the task monitor -- er, sysguard, and CTL+ALT+ESC brings up the "kill" mouse cursor.

-t.

psyjax:
my fav. way of killing an errant task in OSX is to bring up the terminal, check the top for the id of the program I want killd, then type kill and the #

End of story. It's actually quicker and more reliable than using the option+apple+escape method.

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