Michael Shear advises us not to play poker with David Gates and POTUS, Barack Obama. Both men are laughing with the White House Correspondents at a Sunday party but hours after they are part of the national security team who are going to watch a raid to kill America's Public Enemy no. 1, Osama bin Laden. A strike team made up of Intelligence officers from the CIA and US Navy SEALS landed by helicopter in a sprawling compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They killed four other people plus Osama bin Laden. They identified him through photographs and DNA test. They took his body and buried him at sea. News of al queda's leader's death was answered with a collective sigh of relief not just by Americans but by the world. There were spontaneous gatherings at New York Memorial of the 911 and the White House. After the thousands of lives lost in invading Iraq and Afghanistan, it was old fashion detective work, interrogations and high tech surveillance which led Americans to Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan.
I found myself unable to enter my login credentials when prompted to do
so in Ubuntu. I think I might have changed it then forget about it.
I've been running the current session for more days than I should have.
I forget. So what's the solution to my problem. How do I get in to my
system now?
It involved getting into the grub menu somehow. I am uncertain as to
how to do that exactly in your system. So there's a couple of ways to
do it (finger's crossed). When booting at system start, use the esc key
or the shift key. The first one worked for me. The timing is key. Wait
until the bios banner shows then hit the esc key once. I am using
Ubuntu 22.04.4 here. I have a current version of grub.
The grub menu will give you options and the one you want is: root. Yes
you want root privileges to set the root password. It should give you a
terminal access where you can issue commands.
Type: #mount -rw -o -s remount / ==> this command mounts the
filesyste...
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