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Comment Re:That isn't what is happening here. (Score 1) 747

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.

Comment Re: Bullshit (Score 1) 747

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.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2) 747

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.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 747

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.

Comment Re:What was the command? (Score 1) 154

mv *.* /dev/null

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...

Comment Re:Infoworld... pass (Score 1) 729

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).

Comment Re:Yes, Please (Score 1) 248

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?

Comment Re:What's up with Dice Developers (Score 1) 139

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.

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