Thanks. I sort of thought that is what it meant but I wanted to be sure. My favorite Australian phrase of the decade (so far) was offered by an EMC support engineer late one night when a DR array failed disastrously. To wit: "Why it's got is knickers all slotted now 'asn't it." Thanks
//jjs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Patrick R. Wade
Sent: Tue 1/31/2006 9:07 PM
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Power supply problems?
John Schmidt wrote:
> Mark,
> "rooted" is a new term for me, could you elaborate please?
> Thanks
= "Someone else has acquired root powers, e.g. by a security
compromise". In Australia also = "sodomized". There may be
some intentional parallelism.
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
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