Igor Mozolevsky <igor <at> hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: ... > Unfortunately, there's no cure for human > stupidity
There's no cure, but there are workarounds. > Doesn't CTRL+ALT+DELETE reboot the machine unconditionally? Not usually. It used to reboot unconditionally way back. But, fifteen years ago, when Windows 3.1 came out[1], Microsoft changed things so that Windows users must press it twice to reboot. I suspect they did so to make it harder to lose data by accident. In Linux, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots unconditionally only in console mode. Only expert users use console mode. When X is running, on all my Linux machines, Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a "shutdown-or-reboot?" dialog instead. The vast majority of Linux users run X. ^ [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete ; full disclosure: the Control-Alt-Delete detection feature required a 386 computer to work. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg