However, that's false binary thinking. Both are right, but they don't conceive if this eventuality being possible.
Please demonstrate a case where "If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password." is correct.
If it were correct, what's stopping anyone from becoming root on every single system they have access to? It would be a major security issue.
He's talking about root running su to become another user.
Are you sure about that? I see a clear '$' in front of the command, not a '#'.
Which un-surprisingly does not have to enter a password.
So you agree Areyoukiddingme was wrong, when he said "you $su gary and type in your password."?
The only case where you run "su gary" and type in your own password is if your password is the same as garys. In that case "You never know Gary's password." is wrong.
Like most poeple posting in this thread you seam to have assumed every one else is stupid and that only your correct.
My whole point is that LoRdTAW was correct, so that's obviously not true.
If I type "su gary", I have to type in garys password, not my own.
If I type "sudo gary" (assuming I had installed sudo), I would have to type in my own password.
The original poster (LoRdTAW) is correct, but the comment I replied to (by Areyoukiddingme) is wrong.
su is not only for root. it has a dual purpose: switch user or super user. Sometimes you might have to run a command as another user. So if you need to login as Gary you $su gary and type in Gary's password.
Yes, but not quite. If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password.
You're talking about sudo, not su.
mv *.*
With only one matching file, you'll get:
mv: inter-device move failed: `foo.bar' to `/dev/null'; unable to remove target: Permission denied
If you got more than one file matching that pattern, you'll get:
mv: target `/dev/null' is not a directory
But thanks for playing...
The way javascript does dates
Are you talking about getYear() being years since 1900 or something else? You might want getFullYear() or getUTCFullYear().
and timezones
Javascript only does UTC and "whatever timezone the browser is using". If you need other timezones, you'll need a third party library (such as this shameless plug).
I did a who-is lookup because what the ^shift-numbers^ does
Why would a label made in 2500BCE be written in English?
Slashdot (still) doesn't support Unicode so clearly the text was translated to something that could be written using ASCII.
The real text is something like "bird bird man-walking-to-the-right eye feather hand
My ISP supports IPv6, my router supposedly supports IPv6 (Asus RT-N66U), I can see the router getting an IPv6 address from my ISP, I can see my PC getting an IPv6 address from my router yet when I test it out on the various "do I have IPv6" pages it's failing.
After spending a couple of hours mucking around I gave up. I'll deal with it when it matters. Hopefully it's less painful then.
Quick question: Are those IPv6 addresses in the fe80::/10 range? Is so, they're link-local.
If not, would you mind sharing them or at least their routing prefix?
... there has to be a better way: but what is it?
The first step would be for the job application site to ask their users and listen to the comments about the site.
You know, just like Dice listens to all our comments about beta...
I don't do PHP, but wouldn't $n = unpack("C*", fread($f, 8)); make $n an array of size 8, from $n[0] to $n[7]?
If so, isn't there a bug in the next line, $so[7] = sprintf("%c", $n[8]);?
Why did Betamax, the superior video cassette tape format, lose to beta?
Uh! I know this one! Because "Fuck Beta"?
images woulda been bitmap and not vector so wouldn't exactly move up to png
Why not?
The images would most likely be in IFF ILBM format. ilbmtoppm can convert those without any problems.
If you want a png, just add a little pnmtopng and you're done.
Without looking, what is your static IPv6 address?
its all ready is open sourced and that is what the soylent news guys did but the community didn't fallow.
Yes, SlashCode is open source, but the latest public release is 5 years old and not at all what's running on slashdot now.
It would be very nice, if Dice would release a newer version of the code, not only for SoylentNews, but also for the Japanese slashdot.jp and the Spanish barrapunto.com, both of them are still using the old version.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
