Word: resets
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When a smoke detector goes off in a House room, a signal is transmitted to the control center but does not immediately set off fire alarms in the rest of the building. If the alarm does not reset in a short period of time, however, control center computers trigger alarms in the rest of the building and activate the University's fire response plan...
...this problem? Go to your Start button and select Settings, then Control Panel, then Internet Options. Next, select the Programs tab and hit the button that says RESET WEB SETTINGS. That should restore your PC to its previous defaults. Gee, that was simple, wasn...
...course they did. In Japan, for example, computers in the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Number 2 nuclear plant, located north of Tokyo, spontaneously reset their dates to February 2036. The date problem caused some important information on the position of the plant's control rods not to be displayed. The glitch is now fixed. It has tentatively been tagged as Y2K-related. MORE...