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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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I think the point is:
If he'd asked you 'turn it off and on again' what process would you have followed?
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:06, 1 reply)
I'd have, er ... turned it off and on again, like I did when he patronisingly "walked me through it".
FFS. It's a computer, not a 3 year old baby with special dietry requirements.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:25, closed)
By doing what?
There is a difference between hard re-boot and soft re-boot, as detailed above, and they're both legitimate terms.

I'm probably coming across as a bit of a dick now.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:30, closed)
no, you're not...
it's perfectly plausible to give two distinct method of turning a PC off differing names.

It's not like an "Emergency Stop" is the same as "Pull over" - both outcomes are a parked car.
(, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:38, closed)

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