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programs "running"
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:03 am
by Diedel
Who coined that expression that a program is "running"? Heck, I am sitting here for ages already, watching my application
crawl through what it has to do.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:11 am
by TheCops
take a walk.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:14 am
by Diedel
Too tired and have been walking to and fro at the doctor's for an hour already today.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:28 am
by roid
programs run from their responsability
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:56 am
by Tricord
If you translate the word we use in Dutch literally, you say "programs are turning"..
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:49 am
by Flatlander
I think it's short for "runtime."
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:01 pm
by Krags
Maybe you'd like to execute that program instead.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:13 pm
by Grendel
Windows doesn't have a kill command tho..
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:26 pm
by woodchip
I'm going to Das Boot it.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:07 pm
by MD-2389
Grendel wrote:Windows doesn't have a kill command tho..
Sure it does!
The three finger salute!
(and if you're in NT/2000/XP (with friendly logon disabled in XP) you'll get the option to run Task Manager, which can kill any visible program "running".
)
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 1:48 am
by DCrazy
Hell, in XP with Friendly Logon enabled, CTRL+ALT+DEL gives you the task manager immediately.
Plus there's a DOS program called kill that can be installed from the Windows CD. It even matches regular expressions... "kill fire*" killes process named firefox, firebird, etc. Just never do "kill *".
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 2:57 am
by Vindicator
DCrazy wrote:Plus there's a DOS program called kill that can be installed from the Windows CD. It even matches regular expressions... "kill fire*" killes process named firefox, firebird, etc. Just never do "kill *".
Heh, I remember that. I tried kill * just because you said not to.
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:54 am
by pATCheS
ctrl+shift+esc opens the Task Manager no matter what kind of logon you use. I imagine it works on any NT OS with the Task Manager in it.
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:39 pm
by roid
(thx patches i hadn't known that shortcut till now, it'l save some time.)
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 11:01 pm
by DCrazy
Vindi: yeah, Krom pointed out the link to the file on microsoft.com. The first thing I did after downloading it was "kill *". Instant reboot.
Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 3:51 am
by Lobber
I think it came from the fact that you had to type
RUN
in basic to actually start a program that was in memory.