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The Ultimate Reset Button

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-not-the-cosmic-nullifier dept.

Gary writes "The gigantic red switch looks more like a mushroom straight out of Super Mario. It can be connected easily using two wires and can be activated in any direction. To get rid of the blue screen of death all you have to do is hit it with something (like, a fist)."

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  1. Just amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, this is just amazing....almost rivals the development of the polio vaccine.

    1. Re:Just amazing by anethema · · Score: 3, Funny

      A stepper motor to control LED brightness?? Stop breathing the solder fumes.

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    2. Re:Just amazing by galaad2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      what is amazing is the error message that the former site shows now:

      [...snip...]

              SQL/DB Error -- []
      Error executing error template.

      ROFL, even the error generator causes errors.

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    3. Re:Just amazing by YouTookMyStapler · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's amazing that the article is supposed to be fore a reset button for the "blue screen of death" and all I get when I click the link all I get is a blue error page.

  2. Yet another excuse... by Idbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... to buy Windows! ;)

    Page was /.'d, or perhaps they used the button on their webserver?

  3. Unix guys prefer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats for Windows users. Unix guys would rather like to have a pedal under their desk that is mapped to Escape. Imaging how much fun vi could be...

  4. Re:Options. by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your parents must shit themselves every time they hear you coming up the stairs from the basement.

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  5. the ultimate? by ArcSecond · · Score: 4, Funny

    You ever wonder if servers have thoughts and feelings? Sometimes I think it is cruel the things Slashdot does to them.

    Reset button indeed. More like LITTLE BLUE LINK OF DEATH.

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  6. Re:Options. by mulvane · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have parents anymore. They had an untimely accident tied to a series of unfortunate events.

  7. WHACK-A-MOLE by no_pets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

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  8. Re:Already down by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    The webmaster is checking out his new button.

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  9. Re:Options. by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    whose basement do you live in, then?

  10. Re:Options. by mulvane · · Score: 5, Funny

    I inherited it my current living arrangements.

  11. Re:Awesome! by ktappe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope this can be installed on any computer! Just think, rather than coming to the network admin to take out their frustration, the users could take it out on the reset button.
    Nooooo!

    I don't know about you, but a notable portion of my day is spent responding to users' woes with "Did you try rebooting?" If users learn to reboot their own computers, that would cut the need for us admins in half. This button thingie will lead to mass unemployment. It's evil! Kill it! Kill it!

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  12. Re:Options. by swillden · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have parents anymore. They had an untimely accident tied to a series of unfortunate events.

    Just because they're in the freezer doesn't mean they're not still your parents.

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  13. Re:Options. by halcyon1234 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Better yet, hook it up to an accelerometer, which is hooked up to a small monitoring CPU. Put the accelerometer into a punching back. Then right it to send a signal once it reaches a certain acceleration (ie: when you hit it long enough).

    Then, set the monitor to start a timer once it registers a high enough average acceleration. Set the time for, say, 10 seconds. If you manage to sustain the average acceleration for a long enough time, the monitor will reset the computer for you.

    It's not enough to hit something. It's not enough to hit something hard enough. It's only enough to hit something hard enough, repeatedly, for a period of time. Only then will you have worked out your rage. =)

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  14. Re:Options. by chmod+a+x+mojo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, i tried to kill myself also when i sat down to watch that movie. I'm just sorry to hear that they succeeded...

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