[OT] Re: how to login as root into graphic mode

Joost Kremers joostkremers at fastmail.fm
Sun May 18 11:04:08 CEST 2008


On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:28:21AM +0530, das wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:13:42 +0200
> Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > "ich bin /root, ich
> > darf das!".
> 
> This is explosively OT but I could not resist asking: what
> exactly that 'das' part mean? I am curious, because that is my
> name: 'das'. So maybe all this time I am something quite bad in German
> (I presume that is German) without ever knowing that, or, my parents
> too who gave me the name. 

'das' in german simply means 'that'. "ich bin /root, ich darf das" means "i
am /root, i'm allowed (to do) that".

now, in dutch, 'das' means 'badger' (the animal) but also necktie. not sure
which of the two you prefer. ;-)


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Joost Kremers
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