Because maybe. You're gonna be the one who saves me.

[venta]

(Geeky) Note to self:

You're using a Windows editor. Ctrl-X Ctrl-S does not do what you want.

It looks like it did what you want.

In fact, it did do the thing you wanted. It just deleted an arbitrary line of text before it did it.

The net result of this can be disastrous.

Stop doing it!

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Erk, yes, that could be catastrophic!

I recently found a less destructive but (initially) more confusing cross-OS command-confusion:

On Ubuntu, Ctrl-Alt-[arrow key] moves between the four virtual desktops, relative to which one you're on now. I do this without thinking, it's like alt-tabbing between apps.

On Windows, Ctrl-Alt-[arrow key] rotates the entire screen (absolute orientation, not relative). I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but it means that if on a Windows machine I absent-mindedly hit Ctrl-Alt-down to get to the desktop where I've got my email/twitter/etc windows open, I just end up with the display turned upside-down.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Many years ago, we had CPM-68K machines where the floppy drive was P: and A: was the partition of the hard disk with the OS (possibly and compiler, and maybe our source code, I forget) on it.
Then we started using PCs where the floppy drive was A: and the hard drive C:
Now, imagine people who had become used to formatting their floppies with FORMAT A: forgetting this when sat down at a CP/M machine. Oh, the humanity etc....

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[wince]

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Daddy, what does "formatting hard disk" mean?

Daddy, why can't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

etc.

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

Yes, I discovered the meaning of the word 'format' through a process of trial-and-error on my uncle's Amstrad. Thankfully he wasn't too upset, and had copies of everything I destroyed.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think the answer to why you'd want to rotate the entire screen is to do with rotatey monitors... we have monitors here which are on swivel-y stands and you can make them portrait or landscape.

I've never used it. But as it happens, I learned that particular key-combo for Windows the other day after someone posted on LJ to request what secret key-combo their kitten had pressed to send the whole screen sideways :)