Control Alt Delete

FadeToBlack · Jul 24, 2005

Duff-Man said:
Duff-Man says....for those that do not remember, in the early versions of OS X - I don't recall exactly in which build it got removed - if you did a cntl+alt+del you got a pop-up that said "This is not Windows" ....oh yeah!

Wow, I didn't know that. Got a screenshot?

Jedda · Jul 24, 2005

Haha.

That was super. Made my day.

Lacero · Jul 24, 2005

Poor Bill. He'll never get respect.

Duff-Man · Jul 24, 2005

FadeToBlack said:
Wow, I didn't know that. Got a screenshot?

Duff-Man says...sorry no I don't have any screen shots....I would have to reinstall one of those old builds....but surely there must be some shots of this out there somewhere....it was quite the little joke at the time....oh yeah!

iindigo · Jul 24, 2005

Aww man it's down... anybody got a mirror?

tech4all · Jul 24, 2005

iindigo said:
Aww man it's down... anybody got a mirror?

Works for me....

iindigo · Jul 24, 2005

tech4all said:
Works for me....

OK now that's odd - a minute ago it said it couldn't be found

This video wouldn't be hosted on a Windows server by any chance would it?

ldenman · Jul 24, 2005

thats awesome!
good way to get cheered up.

FadeToBlack · Jul 25, 2005

Duff-Man said:
Duff-Man says...sorry no I don't have any screen shots....I would have to reinstall one of those old builds....but surely there must be some shots of this out there somewhere....it was quite the little joke at the time....oh yeah!

Cool, man. I'll have to find some screenshots of that somewhere. I'm sure they're out there.

Jedi128 · Jul 25, 2005

Anyone that uses an older version of OSX just type those keys and see if it works!!! Then send a screen shot to us!

Jedi128 · Jul 25, 2005

I tried it on 10.2.8 and 10.4.1 and it doesn't work on either..... need an earlier version.....

ham_man · Jul 25, 2005

What would have been real funny is if Bill had just hauled off and beat the crap out of that guy. Or Bill's bodyguards

. We can't go around talking bad about Microsoft can we...?

quackattack · Jul 25, 2005

Wow, come on Bill, you gotta be able to laugh at yourself a little bit... jeez.

mac-er · Jul 25, 2005

quackattack said:
Wow, come on Bill, you gotta be able to laugh at yourself a little bit... jeez.

We have all established that Bill G lacks any sense of humor or social skills....his encounter with Conan O'Brien proved that.

grapes911 · Jul 25, 2005

mac-er said:
We have all established that Bill G lacks any sense of humor or social skills....his encounter with Conan O'Brien proved that.

Not sure what you are talking about but please, someone, tell me you have a video?

Applespider · Jul 25, 2005

mac-er said:
We have all established that Bill G lacks any sense of humor...

You mean he's serious when he says Windows has never been more stable or secure?

quackattack · Jul 25, 2005

grapes911 said:
Not sure what you are talking about but please, someone, tell me you have a video?

He's talking about the Longhorn demo at CES in Jan. Conan was the MC. It was a disaster, nothing worked right! Conan tried his best to keep it going. Wish I had a video, it is a must see.

weg · Jul 26, 2005

JDar said:
and Ctrl-Alt-Del almost always worked. Not quite, but almost.

What is "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" translated to a Mac? Last time I was using iPhoto I decided that I could as well run a slideshow while I was importing pictures from my digicam. This was probably not such a good idea, because I wasn't able to stop the slideshow anymore. iPhoto simply didn't react on the keystrokes anymore, and it was in fullscreen mode. So all I could do is turn my Powerbook off holding the Power button for 2 seconds..

Mechcozmo · Jul 26, 2005

Duff-Man said:
Duff-Man says....for those that do not remember, in the early versions of OS X - I don't recall exactly in which build it got removed - if you did a cntl+alt+del you got a pop-up that said "This is not Windows" ....oh yeah!

Musta been really early. Apple has a no Easter Egg policy for security reasons. But if you hold the shift key down while activating a User Interface event... its cool. (Exposé, Minimizing, etc.)

Shmanky · Jul 26, 2005

Anyone know what event this was?

mpw · Jul 26, 2005

Lacero said:
This brings up an interesting topic. Would you rather be the richest/least respected man in the world or the most respected man, but not the richest? That's the paradox that is Bill Gates.

Better question would be the choice between richest & least respected and most respected & poorest.

Of course if you were the most respected you couldn't possibly be the poorest anymore than the least respected could ever be the richest.

I don't have a definitive answer on who I least respect but there's a lot of people in front of Bill on the list which makes him neither the least respected nor, I believe, the richest.

Mavimao · Jul 26, 2005

weg said:
What is "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" translated to a Mac?

Apple+Option+Escape

mac-er · Nov 11, 2005

grapes911 said:
Not sure what you are talking about but please, someone, tell me you have a video?

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/ces2005/default.mspx

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