Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me.... I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to open a terminal, 'su' over to root and cat 'message' in /boot. That's when the joke was on me. All of a sudden I got a flurry of Morse code beeps through my speakers, making a mess of my music. So, I closed the terminal window, but the Morse code kept on coming! Gee-e-e-e-z-z-z-z! I think to myself, I gotta shut this noise down. Well, now I am faced with having to turn off my blessed music or see if the 'bleeping' noise (no cussing implied) would end on its own. the bleeping noise (cussing now intended) just kept on coming, so in disgust (I hate to interrupt my music) I closed KsCD down. The Morse code stopped. Wow! I was so relieved.
OK. So...I got caught doing a stupid thing. I mean, curiosity killed the cat, right? The only thing that bothers me is what that bleeping noise was about. It sounded familiar, somehow....I know that I have heard this stuff before.Hmmm...Yes! I remember now! Wait! Oh NO! It can't be?! Geez, I can see them coming, out of my kitchen window. NO! No....Not again! They took me once! No...! OMG!!! No-o-o-o-o-o...... T ;-) Moral: Don't ever 'cat' a binary file in Linux. It's extremely noisy and just infuriate's the hell out of 'them'. And they will come for you, just as they have for me. Oh yes, they will come.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen........ I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text anyway. They are now being identified as "unknown" type. When I open them, they are just so much code. :-/ Now, unless I have completely gone off my rocker, something strange is happening here.....and I don't know what it is. Could somebody who is running Mdk 9.0 out there have a look in /boot, and check the files; message-text or message-graphic, and verify for me whether they are plain text files that can be read? I have read permission on them, and even as root I get the same thing. I'm experiencing a glitch with lilo, and am curious about this "happening". TIA for any help. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber *********************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *********************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *********************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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