hehe...

[misterx]

translation:
sudo = on a linux system, run a command as the superuser/admin

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I like that one, but personally, my favorite is this t-shirt in the XKCD store:

[misterx.livejournal.com]

heh... true too!

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

I like that one.

A similar joke could be made about following certain vi commands (such as :w or :q) with an exclamation point. Otherwise known as a "bang", but in that context, I pronounce it "dammit".

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

bitch() { sudo $*; }

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

And since I was asked about this OOB; it defines a shell function called bitch which just invokes sudo with the same arguments.

$ bitch make me a sandwich
make: *** No rule to make target `me'.  Stop.

Even root power won't help you if you don't have the right Makefile.

[thefile.livejournal.com]

Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd) is going to be a GoH at Penguicon (http://penguicon.org) this coming April.

[natf.livejournal.com]

A good one indeed!

Bear in mind - not just linux, but any unix including BSD and OSX... ;-p

[brujaoscura.livejournal.com]

Oy......
Yeah- I'm back Long story but I am most definitely alive and back

Things are some better.