>The Apple 2 series had a very similar button >sequence (open-apple, control, reset), which actually >did soft reboot the machine without confirmation.
Those were the later ones.
Initially there was a reset button that dropped you to the monitor. There was a well-known mod to require another key.
Eventually, the control key was required; I forget when that started (the//e? I don't think it was the plus, but it's, ahh, been a while)
You could get back into BASIC with esc-b or some such.
Compucolor had a "CPU reset" button on the keyboard. I knew someone whose cat walked up his arm, curled around his neck to snooze for half an hour, and walked down the other arm, stepping on the key . . . he didn't know that there was a similar sequence, and lost something like an hour's work.
For that matter, until the IBM PC, almost everything had *something* you could just push to restart; IBM got a lot of flack over this.
During my exile in Pennsylvania, I had to deal with their summer road construction method: shut down all of the lanes that you hope to work on over the summer at the very beginning, then work on them sparingly.
Anyway, they had signs with what was supposed to look like a child's handwriting saying, "Please slow down. My Daddy works here."
I wanted to load the van with signs to put next to these in the empty construction zones saying, "Please work. My Daddy drives here."
hawk, who didn't at the time think of the Mommy variant [the state had both], I supposed I'd need a "Please hold a sign. My daddy drives here."
You will notice some people are shaped a little differently. They have a couple of bumps, and their hips stick out. Some even have longer hair than the system administrator in the back room.
These are called "girls", and can be an interesting way to spend your time . . .:)
>Google often jumps into things without considering all of the details.
Yeah, that bit on taking on Digital, who didn't need to make money on their "web" search engine and only built altavista to show off the capabilities of their alpha processor was a disaster . . .
The conventional wisdom is indeed that most utilities are "natural monopolies," and for the reasons you cite.
But in Lubbock, TX, there are two competing electrical grids--and at least as of a few years ago, among the lowest electrical prices. I've spoken to other economists who have graphed electrical prices by distance from Lubbock.
Competition works even in places where we would expect it not to . . .
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three-tier laws in most states were not to protect the distributors, but to protect against out of state manufacturers controlling the industry.
Still a protection of local interests, but not quite the one it looks like . . .
doc hawk
More commonly, the shift key moved the bank of keys to change which would hit, rather than moving the platen.
That combination was already used by EMACS . . .
hawk
It's also worth noting that MS was *NOT* the originator of MS-DOS; they bought it after selling it to IBM.
Also worth noting that ctrl-alt-del was a hardware feature, not an ms-dos feature. Built in by IBM.
MS-DOS simply ignored it and didn't prevent the restart.
>The Apple 2 series had a very similar button
>sequence (open-apple, control, reset), which actually
>did soft reboot the machine without confirmation.
Those were the later ones.
Initially there was a reset button that dropped you to the monitor. There was a well-known mod to require another key.
Eventually, the control key was required; I forget when that started (the //e? I don't think it was the plus, but it's, ahh, been a while)
You could get back into BASIC with esc-b or some such.
Compucolor had a "CPU reset" button on the keyboard. I knew someone whose cat walked up his arm, curled around his neck to snooze for half an hour, and walked down the other arm, stepping on the key . . . he didn't know that there was a similar sequence, and lost something like an hour's work.
For that matter, until the IBM PC, almost everything had *something* you could just push to restart; IBM got a lot of flack over this.
When they cut off a finger to see how long it works, let me know . . .
hawk
>OS on SSD f
Or ZFS on BSD . . .
[*duck*]
hawk
That's what I did with MOO2--played it for a day or two, and went back to (and still play) MOO . . .(never even stuck MOO3 into the drive).
hawk
During my exile in Pennsylvania, I had to deal with their summer road construction method: shut down all of the lanes that you hope to work on over the summer at the very beginning, then work on them sparingly.
Anyway, they had signs with what was supposed to look like a child's handwriting saying, "Please slow down. My Daddy works here."
I wanted to load the van with signs to put next to these in the empty construction zones saying, "Please work. My Daddy drives here."
hawk, who didn't at the time think of the Mommy variant [the state had both], I supposed I'd need a "Please hold a sign. My daddy drives here."
California used to have Illegal Alien Crossing signs; I don't know if they still do.
hawk
When people notice these, or the mannequin behind the wheels, the decoy cars have been known to get decorated with donuts . . .
hawk
So with any luck, it will stop the California Legislature from breeding?
Great news for the other 49 states! :)
hawk
> And I have read that once upon a time in 90-s the FreeBSD FTP site
> took world's first place in total download.
Err . . . having been around then . . . the current FreeBSD machine tended to hold the ftp data rate records.
This lasted for years, across many versions, and was generally not the latest & greatest hardware.
hawk
MS has a million servers.
This is equivalent to, what, 100k Linux servers, or 50k BSD servers?
hawk, who remembers the hotmail attempted conversion from FreeBSD to Windows when MS bought it
>classical quantum mechanics says it cannot.
"Classical quantum mechanics."
OK, with that phrase, my Physics degree is officially obsolete.
Now I wonder how much time my Ph.D. in Economics & Statistics has left on it . . .
hawk, fortunate that his J.D. won't expire . . .
That "they is plural" is correct.
However, absent context otherwise, "he" does *not* indicate gender; it is the correct word for both male and for unknown gender.
Women get their own words, while men get hand-me-downs.
hawk
Head out onto the street. Look around.
You will notice some people are shaped a little differently. They have a couple of bumps, and their hips stick out. Some even have longer hair than the system administrator in the back room.
These are called "girls", and can be an interesting way to spend your time . . . :)
hawk
I think you misspelled "Running Man" . . .
hawk
The taxi cartel and a billionaire . . .
You may have misidentified the underdog on this one.
hawk
Put that way, maybe Windows isn't quite so bad after all . . .
hawk
These are not the socialists you are looking for . . .
hawk, esq.
It was as if millions of cases suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .
Oh, wait.
Just 400. :)
hawk, esq.
And which of these don't apply doubly or triply to Windows?
hawk
>Google often jumps into things without considering all of the details.
Yeah, that bit on taking on Digital, who didn't need to make money on their "web" search engine and only built altavista to show off the capabilities of their alpha processor was a disaster . . .
hawk
The conventional wisdom is indeed that most utilities are "natural monopolies," and for the reasons you cite.
But in Lubbock, TX, there are two competing electrical grids--and at least as of a few years ago, among the lowest electrical prices. I've spoken to other economists who have graphed electrical prices by distance from Lubbock.
Competition works even in places where we would expect it not to . . .
doc hawk