On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:43, Frank Sorenson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Michael Ryan Byrd suggested we build a large wooden badger: > > > > PS If you just want to get a few files off of your windows computer, > > try > > > > ftp-ing them to the linux computer. > > > > > > or a floppy! :) > > > > or writing down the information on a piece of paper and typing/scanning it > > into the target computer! :) > > or transfering the file by embedding its contents as the payload of ping > packets, using ethereal to sniff them, and recreating the file manually on > the other side. Oh, wait. I guess that would be easier from the linux > side :) > > In that case, maybe it'd be easier to just recreate the use the following > procedure: > mkfifo /tmp/million_monkeys > cat /dev/urandom > /tmp/million_monkeys > dd if=/tmp/million_monkeys of=mydata bs=(insert size of data here) count=1 > > You should probably get your data, provided your data contains > Shakespeare. Alternatively, you may end up with my data, which _is_ > Shakespeare. If you do get my data, I'd like it back. Don't worry about > sending it back. I'll just recreate it myself. >
That's awesome. Is that a violation of copyright laws? Bryan > Frank > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK > CSR Computer Science Department > Brigham Young University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
