B-TR3E

…and it seems zey zink, I am not funny at all! . Wait, I’ve got another one: Wann ist das Nunstück git und Slottermeier?..

Telling you is harmless. Zey have ozzer vays to let you know - very painful vays zat is.

I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

I’ve heard that before. “No. I won’t close the circuit breaker while you’re holding the wires.” “Boss!..”

Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…

The whole vanity publishing industry works like that. Yes, there is such an industry. There’s a highly accurate, slightly satiric and utterly confusing book about it, named “Il pendolo de Foucault” by Umberto Eco. (Probably something like “Foucault’s Pendulum” in English). If it weren’t that excessively long and the plot less complex I’d highly recommend it.

AFAIK other language Wikipedias already are incorporated “elsewhere” (the world¹).

¹ there actually is one outside the US

Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /” instead of “./”.

I still do. With NFS4 even more than ever. Won’t let it go unless for a SAN.

Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system.

no_root_squash

much?

It’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*

Actually, they never stopped manufacturing for the German army. Except for a couple of years after WWII.