Re: Millen[n]ium (Was: Re: Mayan numbers)

From: John Cowan
Message: 1171
Date: 2003-01-23

Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> I'd take "sudo" as a Japanese form!

Which merely shows that you are not a native speaker of the Unix dialect
("a language without an army or a navy"). :-)

"Su" is an acronym for "super-user" (most privileged user), so "sudo" is
a command to allow mere mortals to do something as the super-user.

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