The European Court of First Instance has dismissed Microsoft’s appeal in its long-running competition dispute with the European Commission. The court upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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Sep 172007
(shamelessly nicked from FOSSwire)
You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. You know you shouldn’t have installed that bad driver, but you did it anyway.
1. Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.
2. While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB
3. Watch your computer reboot magically.
What the individual keys do in that sequence are not as important as what it does as a whole: stops all programs, unmounts all drives, and reboots. A lot safer than just cutting the power.
Here it is again: REISUB. Remember that, as it will save you a lot of time when you are configuring a system and something gets messed up. Need a mnemonic? Try Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring.
The UK Government have released a response to the online petition to prevent the BBC making the iPlayer Windows only. The government state that the “BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for the BBC’s on-demand services that the iPlayer is available to users of a range of operating systems” and they will “measure the BBC’s progress on this”
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