On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 11:47, Technoslick wrote: > 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.... >
Hehehehehe.... MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH (or "station" if you live in Oz).... I've managed to open up /boot/message in GIMP - not only that, but made direct modifications to it to reflect what I like for my system... I think that if you really want to get crazy - either by having a customized login for lilo (as RH, Mandrake and the rest do) or by not having anything at all, you can remove the message= from the lilo.conf and rerun lilo to have NOTHING, or modifiy the existing /boot/message to something completely different - as long as it's 320x200 in 16 color... Mine works... -- Thu Dec 5 12:10:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | k�hn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn briefcase, n: A trial where the jury gets together and forms a lynching party.
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