On Thu, 17 May 2001, John Allen wrote:
> Yeah, I totally agree!
>> Just the other day I pressed the power switch on the wrong machine,
> and it rebooted, BLOODY UNIX/LINUX.
that is actually attrocious...
With Windows on a modern machine, chances are it'd have problems with
ACPI or somesuch and hang while shutting down, therefore not actually
rebooting.
what can you say.. linux - it reboots when you reboot it.
--paulj
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