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gelinas
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response 200 of 222:
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Jun 18 04:13 UTC 2000 |
No, it's not. The three-fingered salute is required because it seemed a good
idea to Microsoft.
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mcnally
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response 201 of 222:
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Jun 18 06:41 UTC 2000 |
Actually, that *is* the reasoning behind the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo being used
for NT login. Since that's one of the few (only?) keypress combos that a
user program can't catch, it's a great choice for login. It's one of the
better non-obvious ideas in NT
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twinkie
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response 202 of 222:
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Jun 18 07:58 UTC 2000 |
re: 200 -- I really hope you're being sarcastic. Otherwise, I'd suggest
finding someone with a two-by-four and asking them to smack the ignorance out
of you.
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gypsi
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response 203 of 222:
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Jun 18 08:53 UTC 2000 |
Re #201 - You would have laughed at me during my first day at UMI. To start
my computer (NT), it told me to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the login
prompt. I thought it was a practical joke until my boss assured me that it
would not restart the computer. =)
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tpryan
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response 204 of 222:
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Jun 18 13:15 UTC 2000 |
I continue to get non-connections upon dialing in, also.
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gelinas
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response 205 of 222:
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Jun 18 17:16 UTC 2000 |
No, I wasn't being sarcastic. Microsoft does a lot of things that make
absolutely NO sense to anyone else. Why not this? #201 explains something
I didn't know, much more usefully than a 2x4 would.
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mdw
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response 206 of 222:
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Jun 18 21:57 UTC 2000 |
Actually, under windows & dos, it's perfectly feasible to catch
ctrl-alt-del. I gather under NT it's a "SAK" key - the one that engages
the attention of some "trusted" part of the OS that is presumably harder
to compromise, but I sure wouldn't want to bet it's impossible to
compromise.
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i
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response 207 of 222:
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Jun 19 04:03 UTC 2000 |
My understanding is that an OS could make *any* keystroke combination
uncatchable...so long as it's a real protected-mode OS that doesn't let
applications programs play with the keyboard controller, interrupt tables,
etc. (like DOS, Win3.X, etc. do). Ctrl-Alt-Del is treated as special by
the PC BIOS - but the BIOS stuff pretty much goes away when a protected
OS takes over. The big reason to use Ctrl-Alt-Del as the uncatchable
key combination in NT is that *very* few old DOS, Win3.X, etc. programs
that one might want to run under NT have any legit need to intercept it.
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scott
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response 208 of 222:
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Jun 20 20:07 UTC 2000 |
The modem server is finally able to get the rest of its brain from the new
gryps box, so modems should be working normally again.
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tpryan
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response 209 of 222:
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Jun 20 21:59 UTC 2000 |
Thank you for the fix-up. I noticed it this afternoon.
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aruba
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response 210 of 222:
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Jun 21 02:52 UTC 2000 |
Thanks Scott!
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janc
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response 211 of 222:
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Jun 21 04:38 UTC 2000 |
Thanks Scott. Also thanks to Charles (arthurp) who built the new gryps
for us.
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aruba
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response 212 of 222:
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Jun 21 04:51 UTC 2000 |
THanks Charles!
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jor
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response 213 of 222:
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Jun 21 18:09 UTC 2000 |
can't telnet in
in via modem
only two users
beep beep
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carson
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response 214 of 222:
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Jun 21 18:24 UTC 2000 |
(time for a "look who's on" item!)
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jor
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response 215 of 222:
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Jun 21 19:00 UTC 2000 |
"Can not stop the Dancin' Chickens"
Think I'll try TalkBack or whatever it is
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cmcgee
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response 216 of 222:
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Jun 21 19:40 UTC 2000 |
I couldnt get to Grex from UM using telnet. I tried several times over a two
hour period. Connection was refused, and connection timed out. Came home,
dialed in, no problem.
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tpryan
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response 217 of 222:
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Jun 21 21:39 UTC 2000 |
And here I thought the drop in agora activity was a big parcell
of people waiting for the summer edition to show up.
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scott
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response 218 of 222:
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Jun 22 00:51 UTC 2000 |
Nope, net is down.
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cyklone
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response 219 of 222:
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Jun 22 12:05 UTC 2000 |
Anyone working on this? Is mail affected?
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jor
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response 220 of 222:
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Jun 22 13:52 UTC 2000 |
just tested email: negative function
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scott
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response 221 of 222:
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Jun 22 14:36 UTC 2000 |
Not sure if anybody is on this. Normally scg would be handling it, but he's
on his way to the west coast at the moment. STeve sent mail to our provider,
but the provider may be the place with the problems. Hm.
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drew
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response 222 of 222:
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Jun 22 21:11 UTC 2000 |
I hope the mail was sent from somewhere other than grex.
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