Re:Messed up sudoers
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Sudo vs. Root
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I suppose you could write a small wrapper that creates a backup copy of the sudoers file before editing it. That wrapper then creates an at job to rollback the changes after, say 5 minutes, giving you ample time to verify that the new sudoers file works and remove the at job once testing is complete.
What good does having/var on a separate partition on a webserver do when every single Linux distribution I've seen for the past years has used/var/www for storing web pages?
Aye! Why don't you go knit me a sweater before I slap you in the face! Aye! Woman!!!
Aye! Why don't you stop dressing me up like mailman, and... making me dance for you while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy I don't even know! on my dad's bed?!
So, tell Verizon where it can shove it. Switch to a GSM operator. Buy a GSM phone off the web and not tied to a specific operator. Stick your new GSM SIM card into your GSM phone and start talking.
This has got to be my single biggest gripe with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia binds ALT-F to bring focus to the search box. This blocks me from going to the File menu of my browser (Firefox) where to close the current tab (Alt-F-c). Yes I know about Ctrl-W, but I prefer Alt-F-c as I have to move my hand less.
Eradication of smallpox. Preventing the US and USSR from destroying the world by means of a common assembly. Educating emerging developing nations to better sustain themselves through more efficient farming and fishing. Peacekeeping in the Balkans. Disaster relief, which I'll be the first to admit, could be a lot more effective.
Just to name a few...
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This may not mean a lot to you, but to the countless number of people (not countless enough though) involved, it sure as hell means a lot.
It should be noted though, that a bit of income redistribution to the poorest of countries is only bad if you want to see other nations oppressed by military dictators just so you can keep buying slave manufactured Nikes and cheap oil.
P.s.
Before you start talking about how the Human Rights Council is ineffective and how the Security Council is ineffective, you should really take a good look at WHY it is ineffective.
The Security Council e.g. is really ineffective due to the permanent member nations having veto power. The US has been a really busy bee for the past 20 years throwing veto's left and right, using their veto power nearly 3 times as often as the rest of the permanent member combined. Don't agree with the vote? Then be the beacon of freedom that your president says you are by not doing the undemocratic thing and nullify the vote by saying "NO".
I also find it hilarious at best when I come across people like you bitching about the Human Rights Council when the US forcefully entered a sovereign nation and took people from there with force and have detained them in Guantanamo Bay for nearly 4 years now without trying them for the crimes they are alleged to have committed. Hell, even a mock trial would be something. China, which by many accounts is far from protecting the Human Rights of its people, doesn't piss on the international declaration of Human Rights (WHICH THE US WAS A SIGNATORY TO) as much in many matters as the US has in this so-called "War On Terror".
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, this War On Terror has in many respects turned American civil liberties into something that not even Stalin could have thought up.
France did that because Yahoo and Amazon had legal presence in France, i.e. set up as companies in those countries. Those FRENCH branches just like every other legal entity in France have to follow FRENCH LAWS.
The French authorities simply requested that the content be removed from the FRENCH content providers (amazon.fr, yahoo.fr).
Just as US authorities have the right to request that illegal content be removed from US content providers.
This is just like US authorities have the right to make sure that foreign companies with legal presence in the US obey US laws.
You don't think that Shell, a Dutch company gets away with breaking US laws just because they're a foreign company in the US?
At an out-door music festival for a few days, where beer is sold and people usually just walk up to the nearest shrubbery to get rid of "processed beer".
Can you just do an SQL dump from MySQL and put it into Postgre, no problems?
Actually, this can be tricky due to MySQL's tendencies to massage data to fit comfortably into tables. Using defaults such as 0000-00-00 in date fields instead of NULL, allowing values such as 2005-02-30 (i.e. 30th of February).
If you have such values in your MySQL database and intend to migrate that data into PostgreSQL, you first have to make the data conform to the C part of ACID (Consistency) before moving it to other RDBMS systems.
Sorry, but all major open source projects are cathedral style. Think about it for a minute. Sure you can, in a bazaar like fashion come up with an addition to one of the big ones, Linux kernel, gcc, Apache etc., but no John Q. Public can create a patch for any of those projects and reasonably expect it to be put in the main branch straight away; instead the patch goes first to the person responsible for the relevant section of the project.
Here's a novel idea, how about simply not issuing credit or check cards WITHOUT a photo of the card holder on the back? That should take care of all individual cards, and even some corporate cards as well.
Re:and that's exactly why you _shouldn't_ be hired
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The H-1B Swindle
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An L-1 visa, just like any other visa, does not carry a mystical "tax free" stamp on it. L-1 visa holders pay their respective taxes just like everybody else. I for one, consider taxes to be a contribution society.
In fact, the purpose of an L-1 visa is to be a temporary work permit for employees/managers so that companies can expand their operations, introduce new business methods, train new staff etc. in the US to fortify the company's future position within the US, thus benefitting the country in both the short and the long term.
As of yesterday, Apple offered two versions of the PowerBook series (at least the 15" and 12" or 17" too IIRC). The cheaper versions were at 1.5Ghz while the more expensive version was at 1.67Ghz.
In other words, they simply dropped the cheaper, only-barely slower versions.
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I suppose you could write a small wrapper that creates a backup copy of the sudoers file before editing it. That wrapper then creates an at job to rollback the changes after, say 5 minutes, giving you ample time to verify that the new sudoers file works and remove the at job once testing is complete.
That's perfectly fine, as they will be killed real soon on the next zebra crossing.
(hhgttg reference for those who heard a great big *whoosh* as it blew right over their heads...)
My SonyEricsson K700 has a menu for inserting smileys into SMSs. Is that prior art enough?
Hot potatoes, Oxford shores, Puck to make amends!
What good does having /var on a separate partition on a webserver do when every single Linux distribution I've seen for the past years has used /var/www for storing web pages?
Aye! Why don't you go knit me a sweater before I slap you in the face!
... making me dance for you while you go and smoke crack in your bedroom and have sex with some guy I don't even know! on my dad's bed?!
Aye! Woman!!!
Aye! Why don't you stop dressing me up like mailman, and
So, tell Verizon where it can shove it.
Switch to a GSM operator.
Buy a GSM phone off the web and not tied to a specific operator.
Stick your new GSM SIM card into your GSM phone and start talking.
... but talking to myself is more often than not, the only way for me to have an intelligent conversation.
And Americans would be paying taxes to the British Crown if it hadn't been for the French, so I take it you're even?
I seem to recall that files were renamed such that their new name was the old name only with \0 (null terminator) as its first character.
That's one of the reasons that the old DOS undelete command prompted you for that very first character of the filename being restored.
ALT-F.
This has got to be my single biggest gripe with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia binds ALT-F to bring focus to the search box. This blocks me from going to the File menu of my browser (Firefox) where to close the current tab (Alt-F-c). Yes I know about Ctrl-W, but I prefer Alt-F-c as I have to move my hand less.
Eradication of smallpox.
Preventing the US and USSR from destroying the world by means of a common assembly.
Educating emerging developing nations to better sustain themselves through more efficient farming and fishing.
Peacekeeping in the Balkans.
Disaster relief, which I'll be the first to admit, could be a lot more effective.
Just to name a few...
---
This may not mean a lot to you, but to the countless number of people (not countless enough though) involved, it sure as hell means a lot.
It should be noted though, that a bit of income redistribution to the poorest of countries is only bad if you want to see other nations oppressed by military dictators just so you can keep buying slave manufactured Nikes and cheap oil.
P.s.
Before you start talking about how the Human Rights Council is ineffective and how the Security Council is ineffective, you should really take a good look at WHY it is ineffective.
The Security Council e.g. is really ineffective due to the permanent member nations having veto power. The US has been a really busy bee for the past 20 years throwing veto's left and right, using their veto power nearly 3 times as often as the rest of the permanent member combined. Don't agree with the vote? Then be the beacon of freedom that your president says you are by not doing the undemocratic thing and nullify the vote by saying "NO".
I also find it hilarious at best when I come across people like you bitching about the Human Rights Council when the US forcefully entered a sovereign nation and took people from there with force and have detained them in Guantanamo Bay for nearly 4 years now without trying them for the crimes they are alleged to have committed. Hell, even a mock trial would be something. China, which by many accounts is far from protecting the Human Rights of its people, doesn't piss on the international declaration of Human Rights (WHICH THE US WAS A SIGNATORY TO) as much in many matters as the US has in this so-called "War On Terror".
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, this War On Terror has in many respects turned American civil liberties into something that not even Stalin could have thought up.
I challenge you to find ONE instance of a UN tax.
Just one.
All I need.
France did that because Yahoo and Amazon had legal presence in France, i.e. set up as companies in those countries. Those FRENCH branches just like every other legal entity in France have to follow FRENCH LAWS.
The French authorities simply requested that the content be removed from the FRENCH content providers (amazon.fr, yahoo.fr).
Just as US authorities have the right to request that illegal content be removed from US content providers.
This is just like US authorities have the right to make sure that foreign companies with legal presence in the US obey US laws.
You don't think that Shell, a Dutch company gets away with breaking US laws just because they're a foreign company in the US?
At an out-door music festival for a few days, where beer is sold and people usually just walk up to the nearest shrubbery to get rid of "processed beer".
It REEKS!!!!
Can you just do an SQL dump from MySQL and put it into Postgre, no problems?
Actually, this can be tricky due to MySQL's tendencies to massage data to fit comfortably into tables. Using defaults such as 0000-00-00 in date fields instead of NULL, allowing values such as 2005-02-30 (i.e. 30th of February).
If you have such values in your MySQL database and intend to migrate that data into PostgreSQL, you first have to make the data conform to the C part of ACID (Consistency) before moving it to other RDBMS systems.
That must have been when it was http://altavista.digital.com/ and not just altavista.com
Sorry, but all major open source projects are cathedral style. Think about it for a minute. Sure you can, in a bazaar like fashion come up with an addition to one of the big ones, Linux kernel, gcc, Apache etc., but no John Q. Public can create a patch for any of those projects and reasonably expect it to be put in the main branch straight away; instead the patch goes first to the person responsible for the relevant section of the project.
No, it's just that seasoned Non-American Internet users have come across people spouting off "facts" like this, on a regular basis.
Here's a novel idea, how about simply not issuing credit or check cards WITHOUT a photo of the card holder on the back? That should take care of all individual cards, and even some corporate cards as well.
An L-1 visa, just like any other visa, does not carry a mystical "tax free" stamp on it. L-1 visa holders pay their respective taxes just like everybody else. I for one, consider taxes to be a contribution society.
In fact, the purpose of an L-1 visa is to be a temporary work permit for employees/managers so that companies can expand their operations, introduce new business methods, train new staff etc. in the US to fortify the company's future position within the US, thus benefitting the country in both the short and the long term.
Beer also has a nice neon greenish glow to it in black lights...
Now, I don't know about you, but I have 10 fingers, not 12 or 8.
15:29:21 PM..... ?
:-)
The use of a 24 hour timestamp implicitly means that you do NOT use the AM or PM notion (IMO a silly notion btw...)
Just as an FYI
Right, .... sort of.
As of yesterday, Apple offered two versions of the PowerBook series (at least the 15" and 12" or 17" too IIRC). The cheaper versions were at 1.5Ghz while the more expensive version was at 1.67Ghz.
In other words, they simply dropped the cheaper, only-barely slower versions.