Re: [Silliness] Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux
Greg Mildenhall (greg@networx.net.au)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:19:30 +0800 (WST)
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Actually, /dev/monkeys has already been implimented. To comply with Unix
> tradition Linux has, of course, named this device a bit opaquely. The
> actually device is named /dev/random. Unfortunatly, there are some
> performances problems with it.
I think you'll find you are mistaken. There are definitely characters you
can get from /dev/random which are not possible from a typewriter, as per
the infinite monkey spec.
Of course, some ansi art[0] showing a _stage_ rendition of the complete
works of Shakespeare would certainly put us ahead of the competition, but
I fear this just raises seek times still further. :(
-Greg Mildenhall
[0] possibly an oxymoron.
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