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Reactor schrieb:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
>> ... 'cause accidently kicking my computer's power button while
>> downloading that 4 GB game would have had a somewhat higher frustration
>> potential otherwise :-P
>
> Having done that once or twice before, my current machine has the reset button
> disconnected. I also changed the setting int he BIOS to 'wait 5 seconds' for
> the power button.
>
> It isn't like I accidentally hit them often, but if my machine really did need a
> hard reset, holding a button for 5 seconds is a very small trade-off.
That is indeed so, and on my previous machines I have always been using
that setting myself (fortunately even without having learned it the hard
way *). Not sure whether I forgot to change it on my new one - I hadn't
even noticed I was operating the power button with my foot, until some
programs asked me whether I wanted to save my work, so maybe I had been
pressing the button for well over 5 seconds already.
My Linux machine uses an instant shut-down scheme though: Safely out of
normal reach, and without input device or display connected, I regularly
use the power button to shut it down after use.
(* unless one counts standing at my computer, pre-ATX mains power switch
already depressed to power down, and realizing that it was a good thing
to have a chance of thinking twice, even if in those days it meant to do
just the opposite, keeping the power button firmly pressed while
operating the computer with the other hand to save some yet-unsaved data...)
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