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    Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    I noticed that pressing the calculator button on my new keyboard often started many calculators. So in the spirit of "lets see what happens" I held it down for about 5 seconds. The result is displayed in attached pic. So I closed them down and decided to see how many calculators I could have runnning before something interesting happens. (note: after closing all those calculators there was still an extra 100mb in ram more normal ) So I held it down for 10 seconds. many calculators started; and when they seemed to have stopped plopping up I tried to start the system monitor. No success. Had to force reboot, haven't done that for quite some time so that was an reminder of what I had left. Think I'm gonna map that key to do something else...

    Weird that something as simple as this can crash yours OS,

    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas Adams
    A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams
    Maybe I should file a bug report

    So how many calculators do you think it will take to crash your system?

    Note: I have 512mb ram and 300mb swap.
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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    I would have tried to go to the console, CTRL + ALT + F1 , logged in, and did a quick

    killall nameofcalculatorexecutable

    or else CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE and killed X. Probably would work.

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Illidan View Post
    I would have tried to go to the console, CTRL + ALT + F1 , logged in, and did a quick

    killall nameofcalculatorexecutable

    or else CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE and killed X. Probably would work.
    Ctrl + alt + backspace didn't work. Neither did the other.

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Ok...Then I would have..............pressed the restart button...

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    I doubt he has a restart button... Havent seen one of those on a prebuilt in a LONG time.. Mine has one, but I built it....


    LOL


    That is pretty interesting...

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Quote Originally Posted by erikpiper View Post
    ...Havent seen one of those on a prebuilt in a LONG time...
    What, and they ship windows? The reset button is required for any computer running windows.
    A Fedora user

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Quote Originally Posted by bruce89 View Post
    What, and they ship windows? The reset button is required for any computer running windows.
    I think he is talking about those cases that have a power button and also a little button that "resets"(restarts) it. Does anyone actually know if and why that button is useful? They obviously stopped putting these on computers for a reason . Even when I had one I never, ever, used it so I wouldn't know how useful it is...
    Last edited by Horizon; July 21st, 2006 at 05:43 PM.
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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Does anyone actually know if and why that button is useful?
    I thought there were 2 reasons Horizon...

    1) To mess with people

    2) To make them "kidproof"

    The 2nd reason worked well for me...kept the curtain climbers off of my rig...

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    My case has one (although the computer isn't pre-built, I made it) and I use it all the time when linux freezes up.
    It's quicker than holding down power for 10 seconds, then pressing it on again, plus a hot reboot tends to be quicker than a cold one.
    "Rest not, time is sweeping by. Go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

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    Re: Crash Linux? np, hold this button for 10 seconds.

    Its not at all strange that the computer crashes after having too many apps open, after all they all need memory.. memory that the system need to function.
    My cross-platform python modules for PVA or population simulation https://code.google.com/p/nobones/, written in Ubuntu!

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