Subj : MS 2021 wrap up with 64 patches
To   : Sean Dennis
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Mar 09 2022 08:16 am

Hello Sean!

** On Tuesday 08.03.22 - 21:07, you wrote to me:

 SD> You know that Control-Alt-Delete was never meant to be part of the
 SD> original IBM PC?  It "escaped" the lab.

I don't recall the "escape" story.  But, interesting.


 SD> I read an article interviewing the engineer that developed that at IBM.
 SD> He said that it was deliberately awkward so it couldn't be performed
 SD> accidentally.

Ctl-Alt-Del doesn't seem awkward to me.  For the most part it's  
a two-hander, but achieved rather comfortably.

What *is* awkward is the way for changing a simple default  
operation on a car radio:  press and hold power button, turn  
ignition on, tap volume up twice, turn ignition off and on  
twice, press volume down three times.

 SD> I'd use VeraCrypt and do the whole hard drive if you go encryption.  My
 SD> opinion, of course, but in my IT career, I found that to be a good
 SD> solution (there's a Linux filesystem that can do that also).

The Thinkpad T60 has HDD password feature, and a fingerprint  
scanner.  I've been afraid to even try those incase the  
internal systems would fail.

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