Item:
Don’t drink and root.
General Information about Item:
- Oral Folklore: Proverb
- English
- USA
Informant Data:
Azhar Hussain is a CS/Econ Double Major in the Class of 2019 from Dallas, TX.
Contextual Data:
Root mode allows you to have administrator privileges in Linux, an operating system. This means that you have access to every single file on the computer and can delete any file freely.
Transcript of Associated File:
Informant’s Comments:
Don’t be drunk when you are in root mode because you can accidentally delete your home directory in console. This has happened to many a programmer, even seasoned ones, and is very hard to recover from.
Collector’s Comments:
These could be classified as proverbs because they are providing advice to novice programmers who may not know about the pitfalls of root mode. “With great power comes great responsibility” is the often mentioned saying that expresses the same idea as “Don’t drink and root”.
Collector’s Name: Weiliang (Michael) Li
Tags/Keywords:
- drink, root, linux, administrator, delete