IT Job creations... IT job losses?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:10:12 -0500 (EST)
> Justin Zygmont <jzygmont-tEQKYFGiemxAYG7eUwYNkWD2FQJk+8+b at public.gmane.org> uttered:
>
> > i'm careful:)
>
> actually, I just realized how stupid my example was anyway.
>
> I don't think ~ is recognized when you are in a root console anyway, no?

    Whether ~ is recognized or not depends on the shell. The Bourne
    shell did not recognize it, but ksh, tcsh and bash all do.

> But even running X as root, you could cause serious probs without
> knowingly doing anything, or so I've heard...

    If you use a display manager (xdm, gdm, kdm) to log in, X is run
    by root.

> Ah, well, to each their own. I kinda like typing "su" and having to
> enter a password, it appeals to the paranoiac in me ;-)

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