It's money for nothing, unless you call running an HTTP server a tough work.
Any Slashdotter will tell you that running "a HTTP server*" that services the number of hits that App Store would receive in a day, is actually a decent amount of work, and hence quite costly.
* - Obv. it's more than one "server".
...in the end I learned to keep my better understandings to myself, unless seriously warranted. So, it has been a life-long learning for me, and others.
...the lifestory of persons with Asperger's.
By the way, unless something has radically changed over the past 2 or 3 years, Australia is a major CDMA market
CDMA got switched off in 2008.
By using sudo, you get to skip the last step.
Except that you have to type sudo for every command. "su" is half as many letters, one time, for an unlimited number of differing commands.
What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo.
No, Canonical didn't invent sudo, I didn't claim that. I know sudo has been around the traps for a long time, I'm talking more about the mindset surrounding its use.
Canonical are arguably responsible for bringing Linux to "the masses" so to speak. I think Ubuntu made sudo popular. I can honestly say I never used sudo until I first mucked around with Ubuntu. It is my impression that Ubuntu popularised sudo, or at the very least, popularised it as "best practice" or "the right thing to do".
So there's another sign of a veteran Unix admin: bitching about Canonical (or anything less than 20-30 years old) even when they're nothing to do with the complaint...
That's your opinion and that's OK, my opinion is that the idea of "sudo as best practice" is a recent thing; a symptom, if you will, of the popularity of Ubuntu.
The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm. -- Travis McGee
