<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Christopher Stone wrote: <blockquote cite="midd9c612bf0903291042m4d929320w23d666f65666b0a6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Matthew Garrett <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mjg@redhat.com"><mjg@redhat.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Everyone involved agreed that not having a keystroke that caused immediate data loss was a sensible idea. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Ha! Imagine if these same people were in charge of bash. We would have to remove the rm command because someone could accidentally type rm. Imagine if someone accidentally typed rm -fr / as root!!! That could be disastrous! ! </pre> </blockquote> <tt>Kudos. What many people don't realize is that now instead of when a user sees that their mouse and keyboard are locked up they can just hit the Gtrl-Alt-Backspace like they've done for years and kill their X server and be back at a login prompt, now they're going to call the help desk. And it going to go like this: Help Desk> Good morning, Help Desk. How can I help you? User>My keyboard and mouse are behaving weird. I checked the cables and their plugged in ok. Help Desk> Sounds like your X server is messed up. Did you try killing your X server? User> Yes, I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but norhing happened. Help Desk> What OS is loaded on your workstation? User> I'm not sure. They loaded a new one last week. Help Desk> Ok, let me open a System Administration ticket for you. They'll call you back in about 10 minutes. User> Ok, thanks. Ring User> Hello. SysAdmin> Hi, I see your having a problem with your workstation. User> Yes, my keyboard and mouse aren't responding now. They just kept getting slower and slower. SysAdmin> Ok, it sounds like something has happened to your X server or you have some runaway process. Let me check something. User> Ok. SysAdmin> Ok, I can see that your X server is pegged at 98.3 percent of cpu. So have you tried killing your X server yet? User> Yes, I tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but it didn't do anything. SysAdmin> Ok, I can kill your X server from here. Would you like me to do that? User> Yes, please. SysAdmin> Ok, I killed your X server. What do you see? User> It went back to the login prompt. SysAdmin> Good, you should be able to just log back in now. User> Yes, I'm in. Thanks a lot. SysAdmin> Your welcome. Is there anything else I can do for you? User> No, I'm fine now. SysAdmin> Ok, well have a good day. I'll close this ticket. User> Yes, go ahead. And thanks again. SysAdmin> No problem. If you have any more problems just call the Help Desk. Bye now. User> Ok, Bye. And that's what we're going to start seeing instead of users being able to manage the situation themselves. Regards, Gerry </tt> </body> </html>