Re: vista update

"Tim Murray" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
0001HW.C248305E001A109EF0203648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/15/07 4:41 PM:

On Apr 15, 2007, PC Guy wrote:

"Snit" <SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C247F074.7D618%SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
v7KdneT_JexxAr_bnZ2dnUVZ_silnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx on 4/15/07 2:58 PM:

LOL! People who use it have told you its not a big deal but you keep
on pretending that you know better even though you've never used it.

Do you disagree that it should have that warning?

Most people already realize that rebooting loses any unsaved data.

It doesn't... not without warning. Try it... you are given a chance to
save
your data.

Oh no it doesn't. Try this from a terminal window:

sudo reboot

Let me know if it prompted you to save date.

Oh, you are being silly - that is not a standard reboot! Seriously... try
rebooting from either OS X or Windows in their normal ways... it will give
you a chance to save your data.

Why is it not a standard reboot? And why is "standard" relevant. According
to you OS X gives you a warning to save unsaved data. Clearly that is not
the case.

Pointing to a CLI command is hardly the same thing as the standard feature
in question... as has been discussed. Do we need to go over that again?

Yes, we'll need to continue going over it until you can explain why OS X
does not prompt the user to save unsaved work when the system is rebooted
using this command.


Why not? Because that is the specific DESIGN of that command, that's why.
Indeed, it even provides for a "ungraceful" restart option. Even shutdown's
MAN page suggests to use, and I quote, "the shutdown(8) utility, to give
users advance warning of their impending doom and cleanly terminating
specific programs."

Perhaps now you would like to equate yanking the power cord from the wall to
the Unix halt command, to a Windows "shut down and power off".

Both can lose data... they *must* be the same!

LOL!


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