Lets clear up some misconceptions

[Kris Bodenheimer]

Hehe, that reset button is actually one of the hallmarks of using PCs in 
the first place.  The restart relatively fast, unlike in the bad old 
days when the machine (ibm3/90) could take several hours to restart.

Brian Densmore wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brian Kelsay
>>[snip]
>>You are aware of your ability under Linux to switch another 
>>TTY and shut 
>>down the offending process?  Or remotely do so?  It may not work very 
>>practically on my old hunker of a laptop, but on a decent desktop or 
>>server it would be a life saver.  If the WM freezes for some 
>>reason, you 
>>can Ctl-Alt-Bksp and kill X and the WM.  You knew that didn't you?
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> Unless the process locks up the keyboard. 
> Which I have had happen several times.
> Just because it's open source doesn't mean it can't crash and leave you
> with no option but to hit the reset button.
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