<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2012 20:37, jdow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdow@earthlink.net">jdow@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was about to comment a little more acerbicly that he's obviously a youngster.<br>
Killing power used to be the only way to shut down a locked up computer with<br>
ANY then available OS on it. I remember those bad old days too well.<br>
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{^_-}</blockquote><div><br>Shudder. I remember those days too.<br><br>Of course, these days we thankfully have an excellent operating system available that lets us perform a clean shutdown from all but the most severe of lockups using a combination of "SysReq" and some other key. :)<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Andy<br><br><i>The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe</i><br>