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On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: |
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> And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the Magic |
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> SysRq keys. Did <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> not do anything, or a single press of |
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> the power button (which should send an ACPI shutdown signal, causing the |
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> system to self-power-off)? |
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Forgot to add this juicy bit to my last post: |
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Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key anymore. I |
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reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see Lenovo's |
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point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world that ever |
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used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au fait with |
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Linux |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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