Re: [OT now] Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-19 Thread Graham Hemmings
Struth Mate! Bruce... At 08:42 19/02/00 +0800, you wrote: > > Who are Bruce and Sheila? > > You boys just have no downunder knowledge :) > >Basically they're a fictional boy and girl. > > >End of thread. > >-- >Edward Dekkers (Director) >Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. >P: +61 8 9397-1040 >

RE: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> Who are Bruce and Sheila? A couple that's world famous in Australia. ;-) -- Juha -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [OT now] Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Bret Hughes
the thread that won't die, huh Edward. Maybe you should try kill -9 :) Bret lloy0076 wrote: > > Edward! > > > > > You boys just have no downunder knowledge :) > > > > Basically they're a fictional boy and girl. > > > > Are not. Sheila is my godmother and Bruce is a karate artist... > > GE

Re: [OT now] Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread lloy0076
Edward! > > You boys just have no downunder knowledge :) > > Basically they're a fictional boy and girl. > Are not. Sheila is my godmother and Bruce is a karate artist... GEEZ! David Lloyd (A Fellow Australian) -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=

[OT now] Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Who are Bruce and Sheila? You boys just have no downunder knowledge :) Basically they're a fictional boy and girl. End of thread. -- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. P: +61 8 9397-1040 F: +61 8 9397-0548 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Hidong Kim
t > privileges on someone else's system. > > -- Juha > > %-> -Original Message- > %-> From: Ayman Nour El DIn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > %-> Sent: Friday, 18 February 2000 12:27 p.m. > %-> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > %-> Subject: Linux Newbie...wha

RE: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> For most of us English speakers "route" rhymes with "snout", though %-> some regional accents rhyme it with root. You call English English a "regional accent"? Route, the way some Americans pronounce it, is either a martial term (as in "routing the enemy") or an engineering one (a router is

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:18:29PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > > For most of us English speakers "route" rhymes with "snout", though ^^ I'd say, make that US, not us... ;-) Around IONA[0], "route" often rhymes with "root" in my experience. As for the term "rooting": In my understan

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread Aaron Turner
"rooting" or "to root a box" means to gain unauthorized access to the root account of a system. Or another way: to break into or crack a system. -- Aaron Turner, Core Developer http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/ Linux Knowledge Base Organization http://www.linuxkb.org/ Because world domi

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Ayman Nour El DIn wrote: > i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! Do you mean "routing" ?? For most of us English speakers "route" rhymes with "snout", though some regional accents rhyme it with root. if so, it refers to how the n

RE: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-17 Thread Juha Saarinen
sage- %-> From: Ayman Nour El DIn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] %-> Sent: Friday, 18 February 2000 12:27 p.m. %-> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] %-> Subject: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1 %-> %-> %-> i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! %->

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-17 Thread Danny
root is the "super user" for Unix hence the word root At 01:27 18/02/2000 +0200, Ayman Nour El DIn wrote: >i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! > > >-- >To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" >as the Subject. > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-17 Thread Edward Dekkers
> i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! ??? You're joking right? I don't know whether it has any other Linux meaning in other countries, but I think I don't really need to tell anyone what it means in Oz? Nothing to do with Linux as far as I know. -- Edward Dekkers (Dir

Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Cifreo
> i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! > > To get root (superuser/adminstrator) privileges on a system, in this sense, usually unauthorized. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-17 Thread Ayman Nour El DIn
i often hear the word rooting someone,,,what does it mean?!!! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.