Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread David Mann
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Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread mike wilson
William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows But you might have clicked End Task on the *wrong* task, and the dialogue is giving you a chance to save yourself from

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread John Sessoms
From: Graydon On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:57:31PM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. But you

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:11:02AM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: I'm not sure why everyone loves Apple, since from my point of view they're as arrogantly inept as Microsoft. They're differently arrogant. Also differently inept, which frequently matters. -- Graydon, who admits to not playing

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread mike wilson
Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: ..I merely lost everything that was installed on my computer... Mark! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow

RE: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread Bob W
But you might have clicked End Task on the *wrong* task, and the dialogue is giving you a chance to save yourself from this grim fate. Mine end when ever they feel like it. The joy of Mac computers. The Joy of Macs Why does that remind me of something?

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-05 Thread P. J. Alling
What the hell, you think you're using Unix or something? John Sessoms wrote: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. -- PDML

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Christian
John Sessoms wrote: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. Yesterday a DBA asked me if there was any way to recover a file that he

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Christian scripsit: John Sessoms wrote: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. Yesterday

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Christian
Graydon wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Christian scripsit: John Sessoms wrote: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:18:19AM -0400, Christian scripsit: Graydon wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Christian scripsit: John Sessoms wrote: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:57:31PM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows But you might have clicked End Task on the *wrong* task, and the dialogue is giving you a chance to save yourself from this grim fate. Mine end when ever they feel like

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Luiz Felipe
Well, to protect you from yourself... If you end the process and explode your system you may suit MS - of course you will lose and turn into a pauper. So your friend MS will ask you three times if you're sure of doing ANYTHING in your MS pee-cee. They know best. LF John Sessoms escreveu:

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Scott Loveless
On 6/4/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows But you might have clicked End Task on the *wrong* task, and the dialogue is giving you a chance to save yourself from

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread David Mann
On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Christian wrote: Yesterday a DBA asked me if there was any way to recover a file that he did rm on a linux system. sometimes the Are you sure you want to do that? prompts are a good thing. :-) We have such a prompt set up on our production system at work. If

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Larry Colen
Warning, extreme geekage follows. If you don't speak bash, just skip it. On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:52:46AM +1200, David Mann wrote: On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Christian wrote: We have such a prompt set up on our production system at work. If you're already really sure you can use rm -f

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-04 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jun 4, 2009, at 10:24 , Scott Loveless wrote: On 6/4/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows But you might have clicked End Task on the *wrong* task, and the dialogue

OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-03 Thread John Sessoms
Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: Something I don't understand about windows

2009-06-03 Thread Graydon
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:57:31PM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit: Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened Task Manager in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End Task button. But you might have clicked End