*snicker snicker lol* XD!!!! E-x-e-c-l-l-e-n-t...... *hugs you* Your Not alone... THough I think I would be considered a Geek over Nerd half the time... Walking aorund with my brain on a Long leash and all... :P
Here's a lengthly explaination that I typed to someone on my DA page:
It's a unix joke. Most sane people use limited accounts on unix and its variants, swapping to the privilaged account ('root') only when necessary. It's been like that since the 80s.
A relatively recent program called 'sudo' ('Super User DO') allows one command to be run as root, and this is done by prefixing 'sudo' to whatever command you want to run. Providing you have permission to use sudo, the command will run as if root had done it. This is better than the old way, which was to type 'su' and become temporarily root, as that would mean everyone with root access on a large machine would have to be told the same password, and because people would often just stay in root mode, which defeats the purpose of running limited accounts.
Anyway... if you use GNU/Linux on your computer or are an admin on a large scientific computer (as I suspect is the case with the comic guy), you'll likely run into situations where you type a command and are told you can't do that. Immediately you run it again with 'sudo' in front, and it works.
If only sudo worked in real life...
Mm, I know. I didn't want to say 'GNU/Linux and Unix' in place of every time I said unix tho. I could've said Posix which covers both, I guess, but I don't think many people know what that is.
It's a unix joke. Most sane people use limited accounts on unix and its variants, swapping to the privilaged account ('root') only when necessary. It's been like that since the 80s.
A relatively recent program called 'sudo' ('Super User DO') allows one command to be run as root, and this is done by prefixing 'sudo' to whatever command you want to run. Providing you have permission to use sudo, the command will run as if root had done it. This is better than the old way, which was to type 'su' and become temporarily root, as that would mean everyone with root access on a large machine would have to be told the same password, and because people would often just stay in root mode, which defeats the purpose of running limited accounts.
Anyway... if you use GNU/Linux on your computer or are an admin on a large scientific computer (as I suspect is the case with the comic guy), you'll likely run into situations where you type a command and are told you can't do that. Immediately you run it again with 'sudo' in front, and it works.
If only sudo worked in real life...
Ok.
.....*LAWLZ!*
I've been trying to get AWAY from Math humor!
DAAAAAHHH!
~Otaku-Man
That's one of my favorite from xkcd.
It's also a linux joke.
-Foxies are smart
...and that was a good joke :D
Why did I suddenly think of Red vs Blue after saying that?