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  Elf Bowling--virus?
 
A guy I work with, whose job it is to be paranoid about such things, has sent us a red-hot intra-office Email warning us that a goofy little freeware game called "elf bowling" is a virus set to go off on Xmas day. All the usual bells and whistles, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) The sysadmin, to be exact. UID 0 is the superuser account, which has auithority to do, essentially, anything. Usually this is called root. It is possible, but very unusual, to have the superuser account as another name instead of root (aka, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) log onto any UNIX system and go find out what a UID is (it's the unique number assigned to a userid on the system). Then go find out how to display UIDs of various users, and go find out what the UID is for root, and you'll get it. Assuming (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) Just sounds like bad English, to me. I also am ignorant. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) Well, I'm never bashful about being ignorant so here goes: I don't get it. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(...) too, although I may just be obsessed about cool t-shirts as all of mine suck :) Richard (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Here's something for the geek inside of you..
 
(URL) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Granite Grinder & Goliath
 
Hi, Does anybody else think that set #4940 Granite Grinder looks like the Goliath from C&C Tiberian Sun? Just replace the large drill with a cannon of some sort. :) Bryan (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
 
(...) Read the GNU Make How-to. That shoudl give you all the info you need =) -Earle ---...--- The Solution to the Bulk LEGO Problem ByTheBrick (URL) ---...--- (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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