[17:21] twopoint718: yo === Cheesehead is now known as Cheesehead2 [17:31] Ah, perhaps I'm finally getting the hang og irssi settings and screen usage. [17:32] og not. Hasn't helped my spellng. [17:33] Cheesehead: I saw you....logged in as root earlier! [17:33] Yup. [17:33] Did I learn for that experience? [17:34] /for/from [17:34] Hah [17:34] Perhaps I will do *everything* as root for a day or two. With my fumbly fingers, what could go wrong? [17:35] O.O good idea. [17:35] it's okay, you have backups... [17:35] yes? [17:35] What's a backup? [17:39] * Cheesehead washes his car AS ROOT muah ha ha ha [17:44] * Cheesehead pyas the eclectric bill AS ROOT muah ha ha ha [17:44] Dang. That typo just cost me $40. [17:44] * Cheesehead goes back to being an ordinary user. [17:46] Hooray! Just tried detaching irssi screen, logout of ssh session, log back in, re-attach irssi screen. [17:47] At last, my announced presence in this channel is irrelevant! [17:47] Well, slightly more irrelevant. [17:52] :D [19:12] running as root: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/bofh_2006_episode_8/ (funny) [20:51] "So of course I'm sporting a headache that measures 'Kurt Cobain' on the pain scale and instead of easing it with some hair of the dog I have to sit through the inane drivel of a man who knows as much about linux as Princess Grace did about mountain driving..." [20:55] "It seems you were right after all" [20:55] "What do you mean?" [20:55] "About a silly typing error causing problems" [20:55] "How" [20:55] "Well I logged in as root earlier and I was just going to try that ps thing you mentioned, but instead I accidentally typed in 'nohup cd /; rm -rf * > /dev/null 2>&1 &' " [20:57] * Cheesehead hates when he types that by accident [20:58] especially with that dangling carrot of nohup [20:58] I figured out that I *can* do most things as root. Just not on the computer.