[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:11:35PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> >> You know, I've heard of correlations between the car one drives and
> >> their need to compensate for certain short-comings, but Patrick, to
> >> draw such a clear connection between your workstation and, well, it 
> >> was
> >> a very brave statement on this list.
> >
> > Especially a workstation that looks like, well, jelly. I can't help 
> > it, but
> > O2's always give me the impression that if I poke it, it'll wobble 
> > back and
> > forth for minutes.
> >
> > (And now, of course, Patrick will reply that his O2 is hard as a 
> > rock...)
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/cappucino bs=1cup count=1 | nose | dd of=/dev/screen

inefficient.

replace the last part with 

nose > /dev/screen 

since there is no need to run it through dd twice; nose is
stream-oriented unless you have a very big head cold; only then will
it things come out in blocks or chunked bytes.

--P