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From: "Technoslick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:47:45 -0500
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/> 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 > *********************************************************************** Hey........LOLL, I know what that morse code sounds like! I had the same thing going here too. Mine only lasted for a little while though. Pretty wild! Is that like booting the <cat>........er, I guess it's <cat>ing the /boot. :-/ --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
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