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[Kagus]

Thing is, at this point just right-clicking the taskbar and clicking "Task Manager" from the drop-down(-up?) menu generally is faster than going the Ctrl-Alt-Del route.

[bloop_bleep]

Guys, you are aware that pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens up the task manager directly, right?

[KittyTac]

Thing is, at this point just right-clicking the taskbar and clicking "Task Manager" from the drop-down(-up?) menu generally is faster than going the Ctrl-Alt-Del route.

That often freezes too. CAD rarely freezes.

Guys, you are aware that pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens up the task manager directly, right?

That's new.

[Kagus]

Guys, you are aware that pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens up the task manager directly, right?

The forbidden ritual!

You dare speak its name?!

[Rolan7]

Thing is, at this point just right-clicking the taskbar and clicking "Task Manager" from the drop-down(-up?) menu generally is faster than going the Ctrl-Alt-Del route.

Usually I'm doing this because some fullscreen game has frozen inelegantly and needs to be killed.

Guys, you are aware that pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens up the task manager directly, right?

That's new.

Yeah, looks like it was added in Vista.  That counts as new to me, I stuck with 2000 for... a while, not to mention XP.

Which is probably why I'm aware of that combo, but have trouble actually remembering it, heh.

[KittyTac]

Thing is, at this point just right-clicking the taskbar and clicking "Task Manager" from the drop-down(-up?) menu generally is faster than going the Ctrl-Alt-Del route.

Usually I'm doing this because some fullscreen game has frozen inelegantly and needs to be killed.

Yeah, this.

[Kagus]

Saw an image gallery where someone was showing off some WW2 German military equipment, including a first aid pouch.

Massive picture: https://i.imgur.com/liMwOZt.jpg

Now, I didn't know what Cardiazol was, so I decided to check it out on Wikipedia. It's apparently a "circulatory and respiratory stimulant", that at high doses causes uncontrollable seizures and was actually used to induce seizures in patients as part of convulsive therapy, before electroshock became the better option.

It was (until fairly recently) also apparently sold as cough medicine in Italy.


While that's pretty great on its own, the image provides a bonus of what appears to be medical rhubarb... For in-field flavor emergencies.

[ChairmanPoo]

Saw an image gallery where someone was showing off some WW2 German military equipment, including a first aid pouch.

Massive picture: https://i.imgur.com/liMwOZt.jpg

Now, I didn't know what Cardiazol was, so I decided to check it out on Wikipedia. It's apparently a "circulatory and respiratory stimulant", that at high doses causes uncontrollable seizures and was actually used to induce seizures in patients as part of convulsive therapy, before electroshock became the better option.

It was (until fairly recently) also apparently sold as cough medicine in Italy.


While that's pretty great on its own, the image provides a bonus of what appears to be medical rhubarb... For in-field flavor emergencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Nazi_Germany

[Yoink]

Funny, I am listening to a Townes Van Zandt cover right now as I saw this. It was some sort of shock therapy along those lines that caused or exacerbated his various mental issues, wasn't it?


Edit:

Guys, you are aware that pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens up the task manager directly, right?

Well, damn. I don't know why they decided to change it from ctrl-alt-del for no reason, but that's better than nothing I suppose. Thanks for the tip!

[Tack]

I am not less infuriated. Deciding arbitrarily that the “911” option was ‘too iconic’ for default users and so randomly changing it so that the casuals would no longer stumble upon it and releasing a new one for expert users.

God is that so very Vista

[overseer05-15]

I am not less infuriated. Deciding arbitrarily that the “911” option was ‘too iconic’ for default users and so randomly changing it so that the casuals would no longer stumble upon it and releasing a new one for expert users.

God is that so very Vista

...sorry, what?

[Yoink]

True enough, it is infuriatingly stupid, but most things in life are infuriating to some degree.
...Also WTF are you doing up so late/early?!

[scriver]

Yeah. Everyone knows fire is the gaseous form. Plasma is molten fire.

[Kagus]

No, plasma is obviously a purple gas. Fire is an unintentional but entirely predictable byproduct.

[scourge728]

On the topic of task managers, you know what's even MORE fun than having to open it to close a game, when opening it doesn't actually display because the game just makes the screen black when you do that and then you have no choice but to initiate log off to get out of it (Maybe CTRL+Shift+Esc will work, I wasn't aware of it)