Vanity Plate

Take a Break

Okay, I’m going to take a break at this moment from the regularly non-scheduled blogging of Networking and Linux to share something still Linux related.  My new vanity plate.

I’ve always toyed with the idea of getting a vanity plate, but I did not want something too ordinary or obvious.  I wanted something unique, yet still relevant to something a portion of society could relate to or understand.  I did have a few ideas, but they were taken, such as 127001, which would be the IP address 127.0.0.1 which is the localhost or loopback IP address translating basically to “this device”.

Well I recieved my plates in the mail yesterday.

My Vanity Plate

SUDO MV.  For those new to Linux, SUDO is the command given to allow superuser (root) privileges to do whatever it is that regular users do not have access to.  It could be configuring system files, to modifying another users files.  It’s the SUPER USER.  The MV is “move”.  So as my car traverses the data bus known as the highway (not informational nor super) it is being moved by the Super User.  Oh yeah!!

Yes, it’s the little things in life that add up to something big.

To illustrate the point of SUDO a little more I’ve attached a comic from xkcd that was some of the inspiration for my choice of plates.

And that is how things take place in Linux.  There are times I try to run a command or edit a file and I’m denied.  It is then I need to use SUDO.

Tip: If you type a long command and are denied due to needing superuser ability, type “sudo !!“.  The double exclamation points insert the last command.  Try it, you’ll like it.