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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Shouldn't that be SUDO -SU "Andy, get me a beer!"<BR>
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From: nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk <nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk><BR>
To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><BR>
Sent: Mon Jul 14 12:32:54 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] My fedora 9 experience (vent/rant included)<BR>
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Richard Smedley wrote:<BR>
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> <A HREF="http://xkcd.com/149/">http://xkcd.com/149/</A><BR>
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Neat-o. I shall try it out now:<BR>
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Sudo "Andy, get me a beer!"<BR>
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>> I just *love* it when you guys out-geek each other with subsequently<BR>
>> shorter and shorter commands to do the same thing. Makes me wonder why<BR>
>> there aren't more of you in politics...<BR>
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> The nightmare vision this produces may be a<BR>
> good start next NaNoWriMo :-/<BR>
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> <A HREF="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">http://www.nanowrimo.org/</A><BR>
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*Cruel*, but yes, perhaps the best place for it!<BR>
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(Love the bit about how to scramble the text to submit it-- I'm just<BR>
wondering why they bother advising authors to "Save As" at all though) :-)<BR>
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I'm actually further gobsmacked that no one has written in yet to point<BR>
out how many keystrokes could be saved over the liftetime of the system by<BR>
aliasing "sudo /bin/bash" to the letter "s".<BR>
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> --<BR>
> When ForkBombFluf's geeks rule the world, this .sig<BR>
> will be first in the pixel discombobulator...<BR>
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Cool! :-)<BR>
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