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Re: Filtering



On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:55 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:12:17PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West writes:
> > > more and more of your precious /dev/null space. don't forget to empty
> > > that thing now and then. I use a cron job:
> > 
> > > cat /dev/zero > /dev/null
> > 
> > But now you are going to have to refill /dev/zero.
> 
> eewwww.... didn't think of that. how long do I have before I run out
> of zeros? 

An infinite amount ... unless you are dividing or multiplying
by /dev/zero. Now haven't we come up with /dev/one and /dev/checkerboard
-- 
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net

That was as boring as a performance of "Richard the 3rd" with potatoes for
actors. They're all eyes.



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