There's a problem at my school where I'll be working on a coding project, then somebody will hit the reload and power buttons, and corrupt the file, rendering it useless. How do I disable these buttons for just me, so I don't get hard reseted and my projects aren't lost?

Wedge a little piece of cardboard under the side of the key while in use.

How do you know it's going to happen? Won't the teachers help you?

-stache- wrote:

Wedge a little piece of cardboard under the side of the key while in use.

There will be a more reliable way to do it with software though.

It was a joke (though it might work)

Jonathan50 wrote:

How do you know it's going to happen? Won't the teachers help you?

-stache- wrote:

Wedge a little piece of cardboard under the side of the key while in use.

There will be a more reliable way to do it with software though.

The teachers don't do anything, and I don't want to be the guy who tattles on them.

I probably can't do it with software, since most of the Chrome Webstore is blocked.

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

DONT USE CHROMEBOOKS

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

__init__ wrote:

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

No they take 1.56 (yep I just tried)

DeleteThisAcount wrote:

__init__ wrote:

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

No they take 1.56 (yep I just tried)

Depends on the model.

-Lite- wrote:

DeleteThisAcount wrote:

__init__ wrote:

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

No they take 1.56 (yep I just tried)

Depends on the model.

My school ones take me a min of 36 seconds to turn on, log in, and load up my pages. 36+ seconds add up really ******* fast

DeleteThisAcount wrote:

__init__ wrote:

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

No they take 1.56 (yep I just tried)

But then the project I was working on was corrupted

Try taping the buttons down. Then they have to remove the tape fist, which gives you enough time to react.

To my knowledge, refresh+power is implemented on the embedded controller, well below the reach of the operating system. You could certainly disable it, as the EC software is free, but I imagine that's out of the reach of even most programmers (it would require physically opening the machine and using external flashing equipment from what I understand. It's certainly doable and not particularly difficult, but it's invasive.)

bobbybee wrote:

To my knowledge, refresh+power is implemented on the embedded controller, well below the reach of the operating system. You could certainly disable it, as the EC software is free, but I imagine that's out of the reach of even most programmers (it would require physically opening the machine and using external flashing equipment from what I understand. It's certainly doable and not particularly difficult, but it's invasive.)

Refresh is a button in Chrome. And power button definitely must tell init to stop everything before powering off

EthanStark wrote:

I'm guessing that this isn't a hardware issue as it is an annoying friends case. I have had people reach over and turn my chromebook off with the power button, do refresh+power, and ctrl+shift+q+q while I'm working.

When this happens, just be defensive. There is no way to turn these off from what I know.

Ethan Stark

There is, it's just hard if you don't know what you're doing.

Jonathan50 wrote:

bobbybee wrote:

To my knowledge, refresh+power is implemented on the embedded controller, well below the reach of the operating system. You could certainly disable it, as the EC software is free, but I imagine that's out of the reach of even most programmers (it would require physically opening the machine and using external flashing equipment from what I understand. It's certainly doable and not particularly difficult, but it's invasive.)

Refresh is a button in Chrome. And power button definitely must tell init to stop everything before powering off

refresh
fn+f5

EDIT: At least it isn't fn+f4

herohamp wrote:

-Lite- wrote:

DeleteThisAcount wrote:

__init__ wrote:

herohamp wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

__init__ wrote:

tell your classmates to stop being jerks?

^^

also try periodically saving your work and/or locking the chromebook when you're away from it

but it will still get shutdown which is just a pain

Don't Chromebooks take like 3 seconds to boot?

No they take 1.56 (yep I just tried)

Depends on the model.

My school ones take me a min of 36 seconds to turn on, log in, and load up my pages. 36+ seconds add up really ******* fast

i just got the Acer R 11 because my old laptop's motherboard broke

At 5 seconds: Chrome logo shows up
At 8 Seconds: Background shows up
at 10 seconds: Password screen is ready

And then my old laptop running ubuntu took leik 3 mins to turn on, I will probably just shut down my laptop after every class and turn it back on

(how would that key code corrupt a file? Wouldnt that just reboot the computer or something making you loose your last saved work?)