17 Jul
2009
17 Jul
'09
7:15 a.m.
Chris Elmquist wrote:
On Thursday (07/16/2009 at 07:27PM +0100), Tony Duell
wrote:
Are these little solid state things that light up L-E-D's or are they
LEADs? You know, like the stuff that's in a shotgun shell?
Argh - *that* was it. I knew there was another one, along with 'sequel', that
infuriated me... :P
fsck
(pronounced fisk) is fun too... it almost sounds like a word..
"That fsck'ing volume got corrupted again."
Fuss-Chuck here :-)
The one that really annoys me is to areviate 'motherboard' as 'MoBo' and
pronounce it 'Mow-Bow'. They kept telling him to login as root and execute
this command. But he
continually got invalid (you know, like crippled) user. Finally, the
tech support guy said you are typing r-o-o-t right? And the customer
says, well, no, "root", r-u-t-e.
Heh, I had similar bafflement a few days ago; wife's moved to a job where hey
have a Linux server which is left on - nobody there knows what's on it, has
ever really heard of Linux/UNIX, or knows what any of the accounts/passwords
are :-) I think I'll go in one day next week and try to get some sense out of
it... (the joys of previous employees setting things up, not documenting them,
and then leaving!)
cheers
Jules