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Re: OT: sudo questions



On 08/23/2013 04:24 PM, Luther Blissett wrote:
/snip/
> So I did a long search around, since I had absolutely no idea where I
> was getting into. Back then I used to think that what was getting in the
> way of free software were usability and shinny. 
/snip/
> Funny I never *really* tried other distros, debian became addiction.
> Something I can never get the time because I'm also felling shorthanded
> before my debian peers and willing to give something back from all the
> help I found in this community. Oh, and the shell... what a shinny
> little thing, full of secrets.

I'm confused. I only know "shinny" as a verb: to shinny up a pole, or a
tree, etc. To climb, as a kid would. Here he uses it as a noun and an
adjective, and I have no idea what he meant.

--doug
-- 
Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides.
--A.M.Greeley


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