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Vulcan nerve pinch
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [from the old Star Trek TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The
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keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on
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machines that support such a feature). On Amigas this is Ctrl - Left-Amiga -
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Right-Amiga ; on PC clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on
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Macintoshes, it is Cmd - Power switch or Cmd - Ctrl - Power ! On IRIX,
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Left-Ctrl Left-Shift F12 Keypad-Slash , which kills and restarts the X
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server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch. Also called three-finger
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salute and Vulcan death grip. At shops with a lot of Microsoft Windows
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machines, this is often called the Microsoft Maneuver because of the
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distressing frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires
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it. Compare quadruple bucky.
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