[rescue] Ass like fire

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 10:02, Steve Sandau wrote:
> George Adkins wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Wait... Don't you need to specify a block size for that particular
> > > > > media???
> > > >
> > > > right, blocksize determines the pitch, the smaller the blocksize, the
> > > > squeaker the fart.  i.e.
> > > >
> > > > # dd if=/dev/ass of=./fart conv=notrunc bs=512
> > > > produces a much more Brian-like fart than
> > > > # dd if=/dev/ass of=./fart conv=notrunc bs=2048
> > > > which is a more Dave-like blast.
> > >
> > > Don't forget LSBc and MSBc issues...
> > >
> > > least and most significant butt cheek .
> > >
> > Crap.  We've forgotten all about endian-ness issues.  Can we do byte
> > reordering? If /dev/ass is a block device, then does that mean that we can
> > write to it as well as read from it?
> > (Don't even go there, Dave, My /dev/ass is read-only,  and cannot be
> > mounted...)
> > 
> I was considering asking the obvious about big endian or little endian,
> but then I read the last line and I need to clean up the coffe I spewed
> all over the keyboard. Dammit, George. ;)

You guys need to get those "rubber" keyboards I saw at CompUSSR the
other day.  They look like they could survive in the kitchen (and if you
cook, you know how rough that is!).  Or at least not drink while reading
geeks/rescue.  :-)
	Greg

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