Safe mode for you

Last week I was so busy removing spyware of computers (the manual way), that by now I should be able to tell the Windows boot menu options apart. You know which one I mean: the one that you get after you keep the F8 key pressed.

Then, earlier, I was reading about the Mars Global Surveyor which appears to have entered ‘safe mode’ to protect itself from doing naughty things, like well, things spacecraft do in space where humans can’t see what they do¹.

Anyways, that’s a different topic: but thinking of ‘safe mode’ for the MGS, I keep thinking of NASA engineers behind their CRTs trying to think which option to highlight. Is it going to be plain ‘Safe mode’ or was it the one mode ‘with ‘high-gain’. Hey, at this stage, you better make the right choice: a wrong selection can take over 20 minutes to correct.

But then, that does sound like Windows to me.

¹Deep Space things and stuff, you know.
Update: I used the ‘Agency FB’ font to create the ‘Safe Mode’ look. I have no idea where that came from.