Det store /dev/null mysteriet!

[MarcelSB]

Hva er egentlig /dev/null? er det mange som spør seg...

 

Svaret ligger kanskje her:

What happens when stuff is sent to /dev/null? Common knowledge dictates that it is deleted. However, a group of scientists suggest otherwise. At the Unconventional Scientist '98 Convention held in New York last week, several experts theorized that /dev/null is actually a portal to another dimension or universe. Others claimed that top secret government agencies or large multinational corporations (read: Microsoft) are using it to spy on innocent Unix users.

 

Bob "Paranoid" Johnson, a consultant for the National Expirer tabloid, said in a panel discussion, "Stuff sent to /dev/null on Unix systems, the Trash Can on Mac systems, and the Recycle Bin on Windows systems, is not really deleted. It is cached in a secret location on the hard drive until such time that the user is connected to the Net. Then it is sent over the Net to a destination me and my research team has been unable to identify. We suspect the 'resurrected' packets are sent to a government agency, perhaps as part of the 'Echelon' system. Or, for all we know, Bill Gates might be the recipient of all these packets, which usually consist of flames, spam, and porn."

 

When asked for proof of his contention, Johnson stuttered nervously and said, "Well, ah... I've compiled logs of all the, uhhh, packets transferred from my test system to some unknown Net server. These logs show some very, ah... suspicious occurences. But, well [cough]... I, um, accidentally left these logs on my other laptop computer which is still in, ahem, my hotel room. Sorry about that. I'll publish my logs and other findings on my website Real Soon Now."

 

Several other scientists argued that /dev/null acts like the singularity in a black hole. One said, "The bits sent to /dev/null have to go somewhere, just like the stuff that falls into a black hole. Physicists have speculated that black holes act as a portal or wormhole to other realms. If this is true, then it should be quite clear that /dev/null acts in a similar way. Unsuspecting Unix users could be sending their flames and porno to another realm/dimension/universe/whatever."

 

One convention attendee added half-jokingly, "Perhaps we're on the receiving end of one of those 'portals'. For all we know, the increased bloat in Microsoft software could be from excess bits funneled through / dev/null (or the equivalent) into our universe from another. Some guy in another realm could be sending his flame email to /dev/null, blissfully unaware that it's being included as part of our universe's Windows 2000!"

 

Her var det mye interessant, gitt

 

Tror mest på den teorien som sier at alt du sletter eventuelt tar turen innom Bill Gates

Man vet jo aldri hva Micro$oft kan finne på

 

Hvilken teori trur dere er den rette?

 

MarcelSB

 

PS: Detta minner veldig om "Conspiracy Theory" med Mel Gibson :wink:

[whoi]

Ganske artig artikkel!

[whoi]

Jeg satser på sorte hull teorien

[quarkey]

Holder meg til den samme terorien.. Hehe.

[tore-]

100% enig i sorte hull teorien

[ZanZel]

det må jo seff være et svart hull ja! hva ellers kan det være lixom!!

[Rafael]

Svarte-hull teorien har jeg hatt tenkt på før... nå er vel den delvis konfirmert.

[torbj0rn]

Sitat fra manualsidene:

 

NAME

null, zero - data sink

 

DESCRIPTION

Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded.

 

Reads from the null special file always return end of

file, whereas reads from zero always return 0 characters.

 

null and zero are typically created by:

 

mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5

chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero

 

NOTES

If these devices are not writable and readable for all

users, many programs will act strange.

 

FILES

/dev/null

/dev/zero

Jeg personlig tror mer på svarte hull teorien 8)

[MarcelSB]

Jeg drar en:

echo "Fukk Bill Gates & Micro$oft" > /dev/null

For sikkerhets skyld

 

MarcelSB

[Os|r|s]

bare bruk : cd /dev/null så ser du hvor du kommer

hvis du ser backupene mine så PM

[Egil.B]

Stick your flames in/dev/null

[Lch]

Svarte-hull teorien har jeg hatt tenkt på før... nå er vel den delvis konfirmert.

 

Kristelig eller borgelig?

[tore-]

Tror vi satser på begge.

[pine]

in /dev/null no one can hear you scream

[enmity]

in /dev/null no one can hear you scream

 

Se for deg det som den nye filmtittelen på en Wes Craven film ...

[synfault]

Sitat fra manualsidene:

 

mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5

 

Og dere trodde kanskje at de tre tallene etter -m var tilfeldige?

/dev/null

 

See the daemons run:

ps ax