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Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM
wherley writes "AP reports that IBM'er David Bradley, who came up with the (in)famous Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination, is retiring. The article mentions: 'At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys. 'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' Bradley said. Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails'." We featured a story on Bradley a few months back.
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Now THAT's funny!
Slashdot isn't posting the article that the WoW Beta signups started tonight in fear that it will further drag the servers down ;)
Holy shit, this guy invented the shocker?! Somehow, I thought the guy who invented that would have been younger!
... that he gets a three-finger salute when he leaves the building.
Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?
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Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.
Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?
That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects fo said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.
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That would be just as smooth as a friend of mine who got a flower tattoo on his arm so he could go over to women and say "Hey baby, I brought you flowers" and then flex.
Well fucking done. On topic, positively fabulous.
Why the sudden surge of anti-slash folks tho?
there's a video of this around you know.
Will code a sig generator for food
anti-slash folk; we're only talking about one or two guys and a bunch of proxies and a LOT of time to write up crap.
I guess it's for those who don't *quite* want to dumb down to the GNAA level...
Fellow /. moderators please mod the parent as a troll. This along with many others have been posted on anti-slash. They are all either crapfloods or attempts to get people to visit their site. The forum where this was created is here . Moderators please read all postings in that forum so you know what to look for and then moderate correctly! /. thanks you.
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I don't know what's worse, that I visited the anti-slash website, or that I punched it into a new browser window so it wouldn't look like I clicked the link she/he/they presented me with.
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can you get this in WINXP? i never have gotten it nor have i ever locked up. on my old win98 machine i can remember getting the blue screen a few times, mainly because i was programming and i would make a boo-boo programming with linked lists. its all it how much you take care of your system. back to the subject briefly of why windows is preferred is b/c its much easier for the average user but at the same time these same users dont know how to protect their machine. even as "simple" as the windows OS might seem, the user still have to get a nice firewall with virus protection, put more than a measly 128 MB Ram on it and keep ur temp files empty and just the every-so-often maintenence to keep it in shape. Most users dont even think of this. firewall? whats that? they just check their mail, chat and browse the web for the most part. this is just begging for the blue screen.