Restarting Xserver from cli

[Joseph Linkous]

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:31 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Restarting Xserver from cli

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 08:22 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> And what idiot would be trusted using Linux, not knowing what CAB does
> 
> Huh?

The full context was:
Honestly...how does it save lives preventing X restarting? And what 
idiot would be trusted using Linux, not knowing what CAB does at a 
critical moment of someone's life connected to that computer?

CAB---control alt backspace...

What kind of idiot would be trusted using linux if they don't know about 
C-A-B while operating said equipment on someone who's life is relying on it?

The real huh was the statement about saving someone's life by getting 
rid of control-alt-backspace.

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<quote>
What kind of idiot would be trusted using linux if they don't know about
C-A-B while operating said equipment on someone who's life is relying on it?

The real huh was the statement about saving someone's life by getting rid of
control-alt-backspace.
</quote>

You contradict yourself. First, you imply that someone not familiar with
Linux shouldn't be trusted to work with it, then you say that people's lives
would be saved by removing CAB, which wouldn't even be an issue if the
person working with the system was familiar with Linux.

This is my first message on this mailing list, and I'm not very familiar
with Linux, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt, but it seems like
having the option to disable the key sequence for restarting X is nice to
have. In addition, I think it should be disabled by default, because those
who don't know about CAB will be protected, and those who do know about it
can simply enable it to use it.

What's the argument here? I'm not quite sure. It seems more like people
simply resisting a change instead of people resisting for a logical reason.