On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:45 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > > You know the reset button on the machine resets the entire machine, right? > > > > No matter how fast or sloppy my typing, nor what editor I use, I'm very > unlikely to accidentally reach under the desk and hit the (recessed) > reset button while sitting at the keyboard, working. > > On many machines now, the power switch invokes a shutdown dialog, > instead of simply powering the machine off with no warning--see the > GNOME power-management applet's dialog. On my wife's Dell Dimension, I > haven't even been able to locate a reset button--the only thing on the > front panel available to press is the power button. No reset button on > any of my laptops, either. On all machines I know of, pressing the power button for 4 seconds performs a hard reset. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
