Congratulations sir, you are safe!

The Natural Philosopher · 2018-07-06T08:22:46+00:00

Wonderful. Phone rings.. "I am from BT Openreach etc etc...we are going to cut off your internet because someone from outside is using it" "Oh, that's very clever of them" "Are you sitting near a computer connected to your router?" "Yes" "Can you see the key on the bottom left of the keyboard called CTRL?" "Yes." "What is the key next to it?" "It's the 'Windows' key". "OK, I want to to press 'CTRL' and the 'windows key' together and release them together. "OK" "What do you see?" "Applications" "Applications sir?" "Yes. It's my Linux main menu" "You have a Linux computer?" "Yes" "Congratulations sir, you are safe." /dial tone/....... ROFLMFAO.

Jul 06, 2018 30 Replies

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dennis 8 years ago

AFAIK it does nothing on win10 Older windows may have done something.

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dennis 8 years ago

That's win + r. Add ctrl and thunderbird will reply to a post.

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Bill Wright 8 years ago

Does nothing on my PC

Bill

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Bill Wright 8 years ago

It brought up the reply for me.

Bill

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Vir Campestris 8 years ago

SWMBO puts the 'phone down. It then plays your HMRC access code. Lucky they expire...

Andy

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Steve Walker 8 years ago

I do on this keyboard, but my other one has a Duck key instead!

SteveW

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The Natural Philosopher 8 years ago

I think thats what they actually said because that does bring up the linux main menu...

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The Natural Philosopher 8 years ago

Now that is a thought. Stick a penguin over iot!

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Lee 8 years ago

Some keyboards now allow the "Windows" key to be deactivated. Because games.

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The Natural Philosopher 8 years ago

You can remap a linux keybored compeletely

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Dave Plowman (News) 8 years ago

Why does that spelling of 'keybored' sit so well with linux?

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