Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:53 +0200, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:Good computing => "least surprise effect".People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs "OH CRAP --- I am so XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) windows in the past 3 days!!!!"Openoffice has autosave/crash recovery, so this would not happen.
...which mitigates the alleged "harm" of c-a-bs, weakening the argument against it.
People knowing their systems and just upgrading => x blocked => ctrl+alt+bs ... ctrl+alt+bs... "what the..." ... CTRL+ALT+BS. "OH SHIT -- I got to hard reboot loosing all the work on console sessions and possibly fucking up that crap of XXXX filesystem the installer forced me to use!!!!"Ctrl-alt-bs doesn't reboot the kernel so your filesystem loss scenario is at odds with reality.
...which means that the alternative (which *is* to hard-kill the entire system) is far more destructive than c-a-bs; thus, a reason for it to stay.
I'm confused; both of you seem to feel that c-a-bs is better than no c-a-bs? -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- Never give up on learning