[ale] A little math

[Scott Castaline]

On 02/11/2010 03:26 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 11:39 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> If you like, I'll send you a patch to drivers/char/mem.c that creates
>>> /dev/four. Whenever you read it, it returns four. This was chosen by a
>>> fair dice roll and is guaranteed to be random.
>>>
>> so basically i would "dd if=/dev/four of=/dev/sd?", or am i missing
>> something?
>
> http://xkcd.com/221/
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Okay, thanks for the enlightenment, as I go hide my head in the closet. 
I do have to admit that it originally went right past me like a low 
flying jet (or flying PC thrown by a frustrated Winblow$ user after 
experiencing their 10th B$OD within 15 minutes) until the link you posted.