Re: human root password (was: Re: AI-Box Experiments)

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 15:32:43 MDT

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> (Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>):
>
> On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 01:28 am, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> >Doesn't "root" mean the same thing in the US? Hmm, I guess you guys
> >never laughed your asses off in your first Unix courses.
>
> No. not commonly. And no, we didn't laugh our way through Unix.

Well we weren't laughing at "root", anyway. But has anyone ever
typed "fsck" without a slight chuckle?

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