On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:59 pm, jokerman64 wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2003 3:35 pm, Brent Hasty wrote: > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:29 am, jokerman64 wrote: > > remember this to save your butt and your data > > if ctrl alt backspace and delete fail to function try the following. > > > > For those who dont know it already, before hitting the reset button, > > execute the alt sysrequest shutdown procedure, press the following key > > commands in sequence, even if no changes appear on the screen. This key > > command will put away your files, kill running programs, unmount > > filesystems, and reboot your machine in a gracefull linux fashion (99% of > > the time). > > > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><r> raw keyboard acess to the kernel > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><s> sink data to disk > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><e> end unfinished tasks > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><i> kill running processes > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><u> unmount filesstems > > <L-alt><print screen/sysrq><b> reboot > > woah. something really weird just happened. I opened up knotes to sticky > what you said to my screen (permanently) and the whole screen went black. > It turns out that there is a HUUUUUUGE black knote that gets opened up when > knotes is first run. if you try to you can actually resize it into > nothingness or just close it but still... anyways what you ust said now has > a special place on my monitor.
I just remember this with the mnemonic Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I'm not sure where i heard that, but I never forget it. -- Greg
