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Mjcpr
1/29/2004, 04:14 PM
Inventor retiring...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040128/ap_on_hi_te/sou_ctrlaltdelete_man

BeetDigger
3/2/2006, 11:18 AM
This thread should have gotten more play. Who hasn't used ctrl-alt-del? Where would we be without ctrl-alt-del?

Mjcpr
3/2/2006, 11:20 AM
I thought so too.

ChickSoonerFan
3/2/2006, 11:23 AM
You are such a tease:

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skycat
3/2/2006, 11:23 AM
I've got your three fingered salute right here.

Hamhock
3/2/2006, 11:24 AM
Was I supposed to be paying this guy every time I reboot my computer?

crawfish
3/2/2006, 11:28 AM
In 1997, three of us working for Gateway sat in a room, discussing how to make a remote control work with Windows. We made a choice not on the right way (which would've added months to our schedule) but the most convenient way at the time. Microsoft was working with us on this project, and a few years later adopted the same method for the "media" keys on their new keyboards. To this day, they're still using the same method. :)

Just a historical note on how these standards are usually developed. :)

Ctrl-Alt-Del is a lot cooler, though.

critical_phil
3/2/2006, 11:33 AM
....three of us working for Gateway sat in a room.....


i've been wanting to talk to someone about this closet full of Gateway laptops i've got that didn't last 2 years.....


**** you crawfish.