Re: [LUG]: ECDL: easing the task

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Adrian Midgley wrote:
> For my own purposes I found myself going thorugh part of the ECDL
syllabus
> and giving answers from a Linux POV to the questions - how do you do
> this...
>
> You'll be able to work out the questions.
>
>
> http://www.defoam.net/wiki/tavi-0.22/index.php?page=ComputerDriving
>
>
> Anyone want to add any other sections?

hehe - I think we'd need the questions, or are they lurking somewhere?

BTW: KDE has a nice Task Manager type utilities, which is also on a
short cut, not sure what the shortcut is, but it must be badly placed as
I see get it by accident about twice a month! Shows basically "top"
style output in a nice GUI, and lets you zap programs with the mouse.

Nice but not so nice as to stop me using "top" and "kill".

I think the right answer is "ensure the process is sent a SIGTERM, and
if this is not successful in 15 seconds or the usual period to stop the
application a SIGKILL may be used but the process may ot clean up after
itself", the rest is interface fluff ;)

Now was it the IBM manuals that described SIGKILL as terminate with
extreme prejudice? Unix manuals have become more bland with time.

 Simon, living in a fantasy world where terminator mice kill children
with extreme prejudice, whilst eating spam.
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