Computer SuperUser - a.k.a. “Root” Hacker
Source of “Root of all Evil” or a laughing hacker?
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A superuser is a user on the system who has control over all the settings, and files on the machine. Under UNIX this user is traditionally called root. If you have access to the superuser account on a machine, you shouldn't use it unless you absolutely need to. The power that comes with the superuser account can cause damage, as well as be used to maintain the system. Many people have destroyed work, or left a system unusable, by mistakenly issuing commands as root, when they believed that they were another user. To become the superuser on the machine, you use the su (switch user) command...  The computer is a moron. - Peter F Drucker Defect-free software does not exist. - Wietse Venema Computer viruses should count as life. - Stephen Hawking You can't write poetry on the computer. - Quentin Tarantino Oh, so they have internet on computers now! - Homer Simpson We don't need nukes. We have the internet. - Alice Minium The internet is a great way to get on the net. - Bob Dole Real Soon Now: When the software will be shipped - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. - Mark Zuckerberg Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F Kennedy Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. - Jeff Pesis People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. - Stephen Fry The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet. - Will Ferrell Iconomic: Making do with fewer icons on your computer desktop - Daffynitions joe-ks.com There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. - Paul Ehrlich Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. - Kin Hubbard Keyboard: 1. Place to hang your keys; 2. The standard way to generate computer errors. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on. - Steve Jobs Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. - Andy Grove They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. - Milton Berle Man is the cheapest 150-pound nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. - NASA Word-of-mouth marketing has always been important. Today, it's more important than ever because of the Internet. - Newt Barrett I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. - John Maeda The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 2,000 MPG. - Bill Gates From sixdegrees to Friendster to Facebook, social networking has become a familiar and ubiquitous part of the Internet. - David Kirkpatrick The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay Just think how far we've come in the 20th Century. The man who used to be a cog in the wheel is now a digit in the computer. - Robert Fuoss The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media. But the Internet is becoming the umbrella. - Larry Weber Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. - Andy Rooney The problem with the internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? - Umberto Eco see also Computer Section
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