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The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del
Gannett News is running a story about David Bradley, the IBM engineer who, in 1980, coined Ctrl-Alt-Del. Interestingly, he meant for it to remain a developer-only tool, not something for end users, and certainly not to have Windows users change their passwords or logoff. He also says he chose those keys specifically as it's not a key sequence that can be struck by accident.
You left your machines on the net, unpatched, for over two years at a time?
Or, do you mean that "I wish I only had to patch the services, update the libraries, and fix kernel holes every couple of weeks on Windows, like I do on Linux. It's so awesome that individual applications and services can be started and stopped on Linux, so that the machine can technically still be 'up' while performing no useful tasks, but Windows has nothing similar."
No, wait. Windows does have that. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I guess.
Maybe clueless dorks like you and I should just STFU.
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Yeah, Karma bonuses are soooo hard to get. It takes about about 4 hours of posting to bounce off the karma kap.
Slashdot moderators may be the only humans on earth stupider than the majority of slashdot posters.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
wow... up a full year!!!
you must be a master admin. you can go up front and order a cookie from the counter person on your next 15 minute break. it's on me... just send me the bill.
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