En réponse à Matt Verran <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Abraham Egnor wrote: > > > > > > Yes. You have a faulty application (or a malicious application) > > > > that will > > > > crash/shutdown your system when you run it. The system restarts, > > > > > the app > > > > is started again. Another crash/shutdown... > > > > > > > > You get the idea. > > > > > > So have a bypass key that you can press on startup. Anyway, the > > > kind of > > > problem you describe isn't unique to this idea; if there's any way > > > > to run > > > applications on startup it could happen. > > > > It is different having an option to do that and making that > > automatic. > > What Helmar sugested was that all apps the user had opened when the > > computer shutdown would be reopened when it restarted. > > > > -Bruno > > > > > > > > I definitely think better laptop and power management should be a r1.1 > > issue, IMHO laptop and 'tidier' system control would go a long way to > making OBOS seem more feature complete. > With full ACPI managment, not only APM :)