What does that mean?


JupiterDuo was chosen in 1996 as my first persona online. At the time I was taking Latin, and Jupiter was the King of the Gods (for the Romans, the Greek Equivalent is Zeus). At the time, Jupiter was already in use as a screenname on AOL, so, as is popular, I appended a number onto it. Duo is Latin for the number 2. At this time I am not considering legal action against Intel for their introduction of the Core 2 Duo line of processors in July 2006.

IGotRoot2600 was chosen as the sucessor to several various JupiterDuo screennames in August 2007. This refers to the concept of the root user on a UNIX or UNIX-like system, or one who has total administrative control over all users, processes, and files on the system. 2600 is the name of a magazine for Hackers, and is generally accepted as a symbol of hacker culture. There is a long story behind what the 2600 number means, see the link (2600) earlier in this paragraph to read more about it. At this time, I do not have any unauthorized root privileges anywhere.

DJH 10/2/2008

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