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Sorry, this is silly. You're (almost) always better off running as a regular user and using sudo. In the worst case you can sudo su. Suggesting that linux newbies run as root is poor advice.



I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a joke article.


I'm worried some kid will read this and will be "enlightened".


Probably the same kid who uses ed because they heard that "ed is the standard text editor". :)


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Hahaha!

  Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
  message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
  and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!


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There was a big ad to click through. Linkbait, I think.


But if we don't give children access to nukes how will they learn to be wise.

-C


I gotta play with a city when I was 12. Hell, they gave me nukes, aliens, riots, hurricanes, tornadoes; I used a whole class of disasters.




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