>(I *hate* touchpads -- can't figure out how to turn the bloody thing off permanently. It hit send too soon.)
Going back to my earlier rant about the foobar Scroll Lock key, someone suggested prying off the keycap (which I did even on the laptop, leaving a stub that still works when I need to turn Num Lock off after having left it enabled it from the external keyboard). Now I know you can't really pry off the touchpad (at least not without substantial damage to the laptop). But someone once suggested to me that one could tape a stiff piece of plastic over it - maybe add something on top of that like "If found, once done filching all the software and personally identifying information, and credit card numbers from this laptop, please contact xyz". Not elegant, not high-tech, but very effective. And it still leaves everything working when you decide to sell or donate the old laptop. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 08/09/2006 05:56 AM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Signal support > TCP/IP does it need singal support? It doesn't need to close anything, or am I wrong? (I *hate* touchpads -- can't figure out how to turn the bloody thing off permanently. It hit send too soon.) Unless something has changed in 5.2, the TCPIP stack applications that consume stack services all have a way to do clean shutdowns, but the stack itself does not. This has been a lingering remnant of the old FAL 1.0 IP stack code since the beginning - it's probably not critical, but it is annoying that the only way to shut down the stack is CP FORCE or sending it an external interrupt via SCIF, essentially crashing it -- which has occasionally left some network interfaces in unpleasant pending I/O states (especially some of the older interfaces that used continuous channel programs for efficiency). I mean, really, *VTAM* has clean shutdown capabilities. Gotta keep up with the neighbors, ya know. 8-) -- db The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited.
