Dreaming about root access

[stuart.reinke]

This morning I was dreaming that my alarm was going off. For some reason I was trying to use my computer to activate the snooze. The box kept popping up asking for my password saying I needed to be root in order to activate the snooze feature of my alarm clock.

This confused me because I know that the snooze button on my clock does not require root privileges to use. :confused:

Then I woke up to my alarm going off for real.

This leaves me with two thing to ponder...

1. Is my wife right, do I spend too much time on the computer?

2. Does dreaming about being root make me an official Linux geek? :)

Goofy dreams are fun, anyone else care to share?

[dragos240]

Lolz!

[Nevon]

This has actually happened to me to, although for me it was the car that required root privileges. That was on the night before I got my driver's license though, so that might explain it. :P

[Viva]

I always forget my password in my dreams

[credobyte]

1. Is my wife right, do I spend too much time on the computer?

Yes!

[RATM_Owns]

This has actually happened to me to, although for me it was the car that required root privileges. That was on the night before I got my driver's license though, so that might explain it. :P
Write "sudo" on the car key with a sharpie?

[dragos240]

This has actually happened to me to, although for me it was the car that required root privileges. That was on the night before I got my driver's license though, so that might explain it. :P

You forgot to chmod +x car. Otherwise it can't run!

[cmay]

1. Is my wife right, do I spend too much time on the computer?
yes.

i Have had dreams of reading the manuals and i wake up remembering somethings i think i read for real somewhere and as soon as i get my coffee i suddenly find that i have been dreaming.

it is normal that if someone spends much time on one thing to start dreaming about it. at the time i had those dreams my average usage of my computer was 3 or up to 4/5 hours a day. that does not sound like much in fact but it is enough to manifest it self as dreams at night.

last night i had a uptime on 9 hours i noticed before i switched of the computer and went to bed. but to be fair i have started to watch tv on the PC so it explains the high number of hours. i did not dream of using linux though. i was dreaming i was very hungry :)

[stuart.reinke]

If it happens again maybe I try

sudo apt-get install nymphomaniac-supermodel

:lolflag:

[bodyharvester]

joseph@joseph-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install nymphomaniac-supermodel
[sudo] password for joseph:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nymphomaniac-supermodel
joseph@joseph-laptop:~$
:lolflag:

[SuperSonic4]

I dreamt once that I logged in as root to get a sandwich made - evidently I'd spent too much time on xkcd that day

[JillSwift]

In my oh-so-humble opinion, that kind of dream is just another simple anxiety dream that everyone has now and again, just themed to fit your personal experiences.

Now, if you dream about not knowing the password for talking to your friends, or being frustrated that your keyboard is a PS/2 and everyone only has a USB port so you can't talk to them, either... well, then you may want to take a break from the computer.* ;)








*Yes, I have had these dreams. "Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? Why am I the only one who has that dream?"

[alexandari]

All I can say is

http://wjholden.com/251csc/fluxen22.jpg

[stuart.reinke]

joseph@joseph-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install nymphomaniac-supermodel
[sudo] password for joseph:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nymphomaniac-supermodel
joseph@joseph-laptop:~$
:lolflag:

perhaps your luck will be better if you enable the Medibunutu repositories...:P

[clonne4crw]

I've had plenty of weird Linux dreams like that, too. One was where I booted up my PC (which i never shut off) to find that it was running Windows 3.1. THAT was scary!