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Comment Re:How do you power down? (Score 2, Informative) 476

As with any PC hardware which implements ACPI (basically every modern system), you use the "power button override." See ACPI v. 3.0b section 4.7.2.3 "Sleeping/Wake Control. The description of the PM1.PWRBTN_STS bit in Table 4-11 gives further details.

In short: press and hold the power button for 4 seconds, and the system will transition straight to the G2/S5 Soft Off state.

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Colossus Cracks Again 88

BOfH writes "The BBC is reporting that following a 14-year rebuild project, the Colossus computer is once again cracking codes at Bletchley Park." They will crack WWII-era encrypted messages, and compete against modern PCs. Fun stuff for crypto nerds and history buffs.

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