Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 02:10:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:10:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1c73e22d3df463c83b934c29aa75f6fb"; logging-data="1297735"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5AiRtN3uJMsg2ZvpoJpLKPQWWOTnr2OGGt2f7yRYQBg==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4hiShN8TMLN3eGwCNgfQOt9QtEY= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 23:35 this Monday (GMT): > On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 02:54:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> On 2024-07-07 05:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On 7 Jul 2024 03:25:47 GMT, vallor wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 01:31:41 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro >>>> wrote in : >>>> >>>>> That’s not running as root now, is it? >>>> >>>> Yes, and that's the problem. >>> >>> Maybe think of GParted as Nature’s way of telling you not to run GUI >>> tools as root. >> >> gparted is a GUI tool intended to be run as root. > > And we have seen what happens when it is. > > Some decades ago there was a devilish little gadget, shaped exactly like a > legitimate electrical plug, with a sign on it that said “The Little Wonder > Fuse-Blower: Insert In Electrical Socket And PRESS!”. > > Funny how many people did exactly that ... Well, curiosity killing the cat and all. -- user is generated from /dev/urandom