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From: Nuno J. Silva on 25 Feb 2010 12:48
Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> writes:

> Grant Edwards <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> On 2010-02-20, Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> wrote:
>>> Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise
>>>> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :)
>>>
>>> I think the Solaris manual page for the sound driver (/dev/audio) had
>>> the comment that "cat /dev/random /dev/audio" may be noisy
>>
>> Reading /dev/audio won't produce noise, so one presumes that
>> was "cat /dev/random >/dev/audio"?
>
> Ah yes. (It was 10+ years ago. )

A similar comment I found somewhere (fortune-mod or some email
signature), says that if you do

cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp

you hear the voice of god. Unfortunately, during all my life as a linux
user, I've never stored a kernel as /boot/vmlinuz.

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From: Keith Keller on 25 Feb 2010 14:48
On 2010-02-25, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> A similar comment I found somewhere (fortune-mod or some email
> signature), says that if you do
>
> cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp
>
> you hear the voice of god. Unfortunately, during all my life as a linux
> user, I've never stored a kernel as /boot/vmlinuz.

Any kernel will work, even an uncompressed one. ;-)

--keith

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From: Robert Heller on 25 Feb 2010 17:14
At Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48:05 -0800 Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

>
> On 2010-02-25, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > A similar comment I found somewhere (fortune-mod or some email
> > signature), says that if you do
> >
> > cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp
> >
> > you hear the voice of god. Unfortunately, during all my life as a linux
> > user, I've never stored a kernel as /boot/vmlinuz.
>
> Any kernel will work, even an uncompressed one. ;-)

So will initrd's. config's and System.map files too. Just about
anything in /boot will work.... (eg for a good (?) time type:
cat /boot/* > /dev/dsp
)

>
> --keith
>

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