Weekly Devotion: Control, Alt, Delete
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It never fails…you’re on your laptop working on a document or even playing a game and then it stops working. The computer is frozen. It could be that what are you doing is more than the active memory on the computer. Or maybe it’s just some glitch of some kind. Whatever the cause, your laptop is frozen. So, what do you do?
Well, the solution is really not that technical. In fact, it is pretty simple- if you know computers. Whenever the computer is not working all I have to do is hit three keys on the keyboard, Control, Alt, Delete. In technical terms, this is called a soft reset. But every so often, Control, Alt, Delete isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to do what is called a hard reset, which means turning the computer off and on again. This means that shutting down all the open programs and maybe you lose that 80-page thesis. As it shuts down every program, the hard reset should clear whatever is causing the glitch. But no one likes to do the hard reset because it is so disruptive. The soft reset allows you to still do some things, but a hard reset is starting from square one.
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-Dennis Sanders, pastor