First, the comic strip, and then, the Live Journal post.  You have to understand Sudo for the joke to work…and as an Ubuntu user, I sure do…

If I tried this at home, Susan (who knows no real unix-command-language) would give me a ‘Jim’s being strange and ignore him’ look and go on.

Meredith came in to the office and looked at the screen, and sternly said:  “You’re not using Linux, are you?”

Uh.  Er.  Um.

Same sort of voice you would expect to hear out of someone who was chastising you for using a gas-guzzler car and incandescent lightbulbs.

I told her that there were some things I was utterly stuck with Windows on.  Work ( Read more... )

You got a lot of stuff out of me last night because I was burning off DL DVD after DL DVD of Susan Backups - the system is stable enough to retrieve the data, it’s just not stable enough for standard work around here.

For the Ubuntu folks around here: I’m amazed at how interested the rest of the family has gotten in the idea of a dual boot machine ( Read more... )