Re: Fedora 12 installing

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--- On Wed, 3/10/10, Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> Fedora IA32 comes with PAE
> enabled by default.
> >> Still, it's better using AA64; also
> ctrl+alt+backspace is
> >> disabled by default.
> 
> > What genius decided that?  Stupid.  Are you sure?
>  That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than
> a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration
> by the installer.
> 
> Upstream, either Xorg or Gnome. One of the reasons, IIRC,
> was that
> some people are using/could use that key combo by mistake.

Using that reasoning, Ctrl-Alt-Del should be turned off, too.  That combo is even more dangerous.  On my keyboard, 'Backspace' and 'Del' are right next to one another.  But, you know, I've NEVER accidently or unknowingly, keyed either 3-key combo.  Not in 25+ years of using computers daily.  And I don't "do" computers for a living.  I just use them.

And to those "upstream" geniuses, a little sage advice: It's impossible to protect people from their own stupidity.  Or incompetence.

B
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