chaoscreater, I agree with you not liking their initial posts, since they amounted to mainly "don't do it" and the like. However, calling them spammers is hardly valid. They're not necessarily as productive or wisely worded posts as they could have been, but they are expressions of sentiments very relevant to this thread. Thus on-topic enough to not be spam.

That said, you don't sound like you fully know what you're doing, to be honest, but that's between you and your N900, so if you feel you understand the risks, great.

Which is where I disagree with the rest of you - what you could have done was give him the shell command for launching X-Term already rooted, and THEN presented your warnings.

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About the tags in this thread - I don't think I can add tags, but please, someone put something actually indicative of the thread contents in here. I'm sure whoever made the thread tags "chaoticdick" and "chaoticidiot" thinks they're all witty or whatever, but get off your high horse and add some actual tags like "sudo" "gainroot" "root" "automatic", etc, to the thread. That way the next person is more likely to figure out how to do it instead of us getting another thread with more of the same.