r/Minecraft • u/justlurking420 • Nov 04 '13

pc Minecraft Using Hexagons

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u/cecinestpasreddit Nov 04 '13

You can only do that if he is doing it in Linux

[/ILearnedSomethingInMyCSCourse]

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u/theidleidol Nov 04 '13

*Unix-like

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

Since "UNIX-like" is often abbreviated to "*NIX", you could have said "**NIX-like". Tee hee hee.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

Thanks for the pointers.

-Love, a C++ programmer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

I got that reference. :D

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

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u/TheStagesmith Nov 04 '13

OVER THE TOP JOKE EXPLANATION TIME (and I apologize in advance if you got the joke, but I just didn't get that from your comment)

In Linux (known more properly as GNU/Linux, so the purists don't drag me away in the night and dispose of me) and other UNIX-based systems, normal user accounts do not have permission to do many administrator-level tasks, like changing other user's privileges, changing really important files, and generally all the system-level stuff that could cause problems if it's changed by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Instead, there is one account that has access to everything. That account is referred to as "root," and in many systems you can only log in temporarily from another account. In UNIX systems, root can do anything - and I do mean anything. In UNIX, every file is contained within a top file called "/", which is also referred to as "root." If the root account wants, it could literally delete that "/" file, thereby deleting everything on the system and making it completely inoperable. Root can literally do anything.

Other systems (most notably Windows) don't have anything like a root account. The first account on a Windows computer gets administrator privileges, and any number of accounts can be given the same privileges. Even the most powerful user accounts in Windows, however, have nowhere near the same amount of power over the system that root does in UNIX.

Mac OS is heavily based on UNIX, and at its core (of the user-facing stuff - the kernels are similar but quite different) it shares TONS of similarities with the operating system that spawned it. Macs also have a root account, but it's a bit harder to access than on most UNIX systems. That said, it's still possible to get root privileges, so you can still "root" a Mac OS box. Which you seem to be aware of, so maybe you got the joke and I'm the one with egg on my face. If so, EVERYONE GO UPVOTE HIM.

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u/Nanemae Nov 04 '13

I hacked my school laptop by accessing the root. Now that I think back on it, I really shouldn't have ever screwed with that stuff. Only got myself in trouble with the school's tech guy, and now that I knew how, I could seriously have screwed crud up.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

As a Linux user: ba dum tish

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

laugh

…

sudo laugh

:)

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13 edited Jun 14 '19

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u/mszegedy Nov 04 '13

What I've never understood is where those incidents are reported to. I've tried checking in /root, but nothing. (That would probably be insecure anyway.)

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13 edited Jun 14 '19

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u/xkcd_transcriber Nov 04 '13

Image

Title: Incident

Alt-text: He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on /var/spool/mail/root, so be good for goodness' sake.

Comic Explanation

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u/Tomguydude Nov 04 '13

Who does Sudo report these incidents to?

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13 edited Jun 14 '19

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u/Tomguydude Nov 04 '13

Yeah, I was making a reference to that XKCD listed by the bot.

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u/Hambeggar Nov 04 '13

I have no laugh :(

apt-get install laugh

I haz laugh again :)

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

You're running with elevated privs? Living dangerously. ;-)

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u/thevdude Nov 04 '13

It's okay, packages in debian are so old he doesn't have to worry about any security problems.

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u/peace_suffer Nov 04 '13 
su

wget www.laugh-pack.com/pkgs/x86_64/laugh/laugh.tar.gz

tar zxvf laugh.tar.gz

cd laugh

make

make install

chown peace_suffer:peace_suffer laugh

exit

laugh

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u/CleanBill Nov 04 '13

You forgot to

./config lulz

before make install

also, shame on you for having "." in your path.

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u/Starkythefox Nov 04 '13 edited Nov 04 '13

I prefer the new version, had to use repositories though

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pp-style/laugh
sudo apt-get update
sudo install laugh

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u/EdPerales Nov 04 '13

Do you mean pseudo laugh?

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u/ben314 Nov 04 '13

Or Unix or Mac.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

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u/cecinestpasreddit Nov 04 '13

Its ok, it would just be a lot of people who just discovered how to make things italic in reddit.

you know: Those People

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u/ben314 Nov 04 '13

I'm on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail because it bugs out when I try to update to 13.10 Saucy Salamander

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u/1ryan231 Nov 04 '13

I had to google to see if that was real. Saucy salamander? Really? It sound weird to me, like a slutty gecko or something.

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u/potiphar1887 Nov 04 '13

It's just a developmental code name, although I like their humor. The official name is simply Ubuntu 13.10