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Re: Athena 9.4.27 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jun 23 02:43:13 2006
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:43:02 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Thanks for the snappy reply.
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006
at 02:39:45 -0400 in <1151044785.3769.19.camel@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>:
> The reason for disabling ctrl-alt-backspace has nothing to do with
> security; it's about the risk of losing your work to a misplaced thump
> on the right side of the keyboard.
Sorry, I had meant to address that. But I guess all I can say is that
I find it really implausible that this actually happens to many people,
each key being about 4" away from the other two.
(Also, I think it would be a bad idea to ignore the security argument
in deciding)
> Ctrl-alt-F1 ctrl-alt-del still works; while it takes longer, we live
> with that on Solaris (stop+a and boot) and it's okay.
Well, in Solaris, at least in theory, one can type some PROM magic
and Win. I agree I've been sloppy about keeping the magic up-to-date.
I suppose it is a sign of something that I can't remember the last time
someone came into the SIPB office and said, "My workstation has hung,
I have critical unsaved work, can you help me?"
Good night.
--jhawk
