ubuntu 12.10 is setuid to root error

if you loose access to sudo and you don't have the root acount enabled to correct it
do the following easy steps

restart with a live cd in the disk tray and make sure the bios is set to boot from the cd (you can ofcourse but from usb and other ways too but that's not the point here)

if the live cd is xubuntu mounting the disk is just right click on the drive and hit
mount

navigate to /usr/bin/ through terminal

and when you are in execute

sudo chown root:root sudo

sudo chmod 4711 sudo

and you are done



restart and put boot options in bios back to normal

xubuntu 12.10 extract here crash

if you right click on an archive under thunar in xubuntu it crashes!!!
An easy way out is to unistall file-roller

sudo apt-get remove file-roller

and install xarchiver *

sudo apt-get install xarchiver



* which is cooler because it offers also command line . in command line mode it can be used as a no-nonsense easy alternative to all known compression formats within JUST A SINGLE command name!!!

How to mount a shared windows partition from linux with just one dollar :P:P:P:P

Yesterday while trying to mount remotely (LAN) a windows partition with the name "D" from linux i tried this :

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.7/D -o username=giannis,password=topsecret /mnt/D

... after some tries i "discover" ... that i needed to pad a dollar sign "$" in front of the partition name to work...

so the command became:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.7/D$ -o username=giannis,password=topsecret /mnt/D

i executed it and everything went fine...
but ...what happened here was that
with just one dollar i finally mounted my windows partitions..

if Dollar ($) = Money

so one can say...
that the Money not only corrupts humans
but also the machines ...

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