Give them sudo and they can grab root whenever they want:/i>

First, why would support change the root password? They can sudo su and get root if you let them.

Second, one nice thing about giving them sudo instead of root is that you can disable/delete the user or change the password. This is preferable to changing the root password after they access it, especially if you have the same root password on dozens of machines.

If you give them a non-root user with all of the privileges of root, there's no way for them to know if you've really given them root.

sudo su

Why not just create an alternate account with sudo for them? Why give them root?

Even if it doesn't, that's almost as good as the phone in an iPhone.

You should probably wait for 0.3. Everyone knows sub 0.3 versions are not ready for prime time.

I've had three real jobs in my life. The first was for 10 years, the next for less than a year, and I have been at my current job for 10 years.

Without the humor.

I told my wife years ago that I would jump at a chance to go to the moon (Apollo style) even if I knew for absolute certain that a coin flip would determine whether I lived or died. I still would.

I usually post anonymously. Anyway, "93 Escort Wagon", here is a logged in post. It's still not my name.

I was part of an educational experiment in which honors students (such as myself) were placed in an 6th-grade English class...I LEARNED NOTHING IN THAT CLASS!

Apparently.

It wasn't unfair. The point was to display an email address on one high traffic site with no obfuscation and see what would happen. It was an experiment. I more or less dropped my older account which I did not display my email at all and have mostly used this account since I created it.

To reiterate, I specifically wanted to see how much spam I could get by doing this.

On the rare occasions I do check the gmail account associated with this user, I see three things - 1. a lot of spam in my spam folder, 2. a little spam that the filter does not catch (maybe 1000 in 4 years), and 3. emails from people asking me, "Hey, are you Neil Blender the skater?"

I got this username and email as an experiment. I have only posted it publicly on Slashdot and have not used it for anything else. I don't even check it. I just checked. I have 5,000 messages in my spam folder. And gmail deletes them after a month. So posting my email publicly on Slashdot only is resulting in 5,000 spams a month.

There are raw intensity files which are used for base calling. The output of the base calling is used to generated alignments, quality, etc. You don't just get the short reads at the end. Most people are just going to use the short reads but that still can be 30G of data for a run.

A single run on a Solexa next gen sequencer can generate over 200GB of data and half a million files. And that is for 8 samples only. You get into the terabyte range very quickly.

That's why data is delivered on hard drives.

echo '0.0.0.0 slashdot.org' >> /etc/hosts