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Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage

Steve the Cynic

Nowadays the "hold-the-button-in" trick won't work, because of ACPI, especially on a modern PC.

"A modern PC"? The first one I ever saw that had the necessary bits was in 1996. Twenty-two years ago.

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