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Except he didn't know there was a breaking news situation. He said pushing the wrong button wouldn't normally be a big deal.

by nmjohn 12y ago

bonaldi 12y ago
He said he came in to find the system running, and the only time that happened was when Washington was waiting for info. And even if you don't buy that, if pushing the button's not a big deal it doesn't need all the safeguards everyone's yelling for. (Had such safeguards been in place he might equally well have seen them, thought "oh, nobody's in, this will do what I want anyway" and approved it).
- iancarroll 12y ago
  One might wonder if that workstation showed the online and offline status of all the computers.
- vacri 12y ago
  That button needs a safeguard even if it's not an international incident. Even if only one person would lose a few hours' work from an all-nighter, work for something that's not so important, it's still someone's work. And given that it's right next to a 'single terminal reset' key, it should be immediately obvious to anyone who's ever used a keyboard - mistakes can and do happen, even when you're fluent.
  - coldpie 12y ago
    And yet, to this day, Firefox has both Ctrl-Q (close all Firefox windows without prompting) and its neighbor Ctrl-W (close current tab) and refuses to change that or provide remappable keyboard shortcuts. One of the biggest UI failures I'm aware of in 2014. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
    - hrjet 12y ago
      This in combination with "Restore all tabs on startup" not being the default is a disaster. The first thing I do on a new Firefox installation is enable "Restore all tabs on startup".
      - hack_37 12y ago
        Even without that flag enabled, you can restore all tabs when closing/reopening Firefox. History > Restore Closed tabs.
        hrjet 12y ago
        Thanks, good to know.
    - noisy_boy 12y ago
      Ctrl-Q exits on Thunderbird too. Since in MS Outlook that combination marks a mail as read, for keyboard-heavy users switching between the two, it is no fun.
    - schnable 12y ago
      This is in all apps in OS X, that's the standard keymapping.

Except he didn't know there was a breaking news situation. He said pushing the wrong button wouldn't normally be a big deal.

by nmjohn 12y ago

Except he didn't know there was a breaking news situation. He said pushing the wrong button wouldn't normally be a big deal.

bonaldi 12y ago

He said he came in to find the system running, and the only time that happened was when Washington was waiting for info. And even if you don't buy that, if pushing the button's not a big deal it doesn't need all the safeguards everyone's yelling for. (Had such safeguards been in place he might equally well have seen them, thought "oh, nobody's in, this will do what I want anyway" and approved it).

iancarroll 12y ago
One might wonder if that workstation showed the online and offline status of all the computers.
vacri 12y ago
That button needs a safeguard even if it's not an international incident. Even if only one person would lose a few hours' work from an all-nighter, work for something that's not so important, it's still someone's work. And given that it's right next to a 'single terminal reset' key, it should be immediately obvious to anyone who's ever used a keyboard - mistakes can and do happen, even when you're fluent.
- coldpie 12y ago
  And yet, to this day, Firefox has both Ctrl-Q (close all Firefox windows without prompting) and its neighbor Ctrl-W (close current tab) and refuses to change that or provide remappable keyboard shortcuts. One of the biggest UI failures I'm aware of in 2014. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
  - hrjet 12y ago
    This in combination with "Restore all tabs on startup" not being the default is a disaster. The first thing I do on a new Firefox installation is enable "Restore all tabs on startup".
    - hack_37 12y ago
      Even without that flag enabled, you can restore all tabs when closing/reopening Firefox. History > Restore Closed tabs.
      - hrjet 12y ago
        Thanks, good to know.
  - noisy_boy 12y ago
    Ctrl-Q exits on Thunderbird too. Since in MS Outlook that combination marks a mail as read, for keyboard-heavy users switching between the two, it is no fun.
  - schnable 12y ago
    This is in all apps in OS X, that's the standard keymapping.