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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The word "reset" does not have connotations of "reboot"/"restart" -- I really don't get why people always make that ridiculous mistake.
<rant> C'mon, peoples. Basic vocabulary, dammit!
(Not you, DuckieTigger.  ) </rant> |
Not too long ago computers always had a button called "reset", which would kill the power to the motherboard and then initiate a power up sequence. Nowadays many computers require you to turn the power supply off and back on incase a soft reboot fails. More and more gadgets don't have physical reset buttons any more. To make matters worse terminologically sometimes you will see
restore factory defaults or
recovery.
