On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly: > Last semester in my physics course, right in the middle of a lecture, > the professor's computer informed us that we had 4 minutes until > reboot, due to updates that had automatically been downloaded and > installed. He had to stop the lecture, reboot, and then find his > place. During this time I took the opportunity to mention how > rediculous that is, without mentioning that I don't use windows, and I > was told that I'm stupid for not updating my own computer regularly. > Apparently, reboots in the middle of work are common parts of the > windows workflow. Worse, people accept that because it's the only way > to be 'safe'. I've never seen Windows do that. What I have seen it do is say "Windows will be restarted in 4 minutes [cancel]" Cancelling lets you do it later. Being smug about linux lets you earn lower marks ;)
No cancel button. I even have a screenshot of it doing that to _me_ once: about a week before I moved over to Linux for good. I'll gladly send you the screenshot. It's in Hebrew, but you can clearly see there is no Cancel button. And I find it hard to believe that Windows in English has a cancel button when Hebrew does not. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/quicktime.html http://essentialinux.com/konqueror.php
