Shouldn't we update this fortune?

Darren Pilgrim darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org
Tue Jan 17 11:08:13 PST 2006


From: Oliver Fromme
> Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
>  > >        If I 'cp /bin/csh /dev/audio' shouldn't I hear the ocean?
>  > >                     -- Danno Coppock
>  > 
>  > Surely everyone should be aware that it's
>  > 
>  > #sudo sh -c "cat /bin/csh > /dev/dsp0.0"
> 
> Uhm, no, why?  "cp /bin/csh /dev/audio" works fine here.
> /dev/audio (symlink to audio0.0) is world-writable by
> default, so no sudo required, and cp works fine.  (In
> fact, it does _not_ work for me when I try to use sudo.)
> 
> It doesn't really sound like the ocean, though.  :-)

If you adjust the EQ to cut-off everything above 120Hz or so, it sounds like
the ocean if you accept MIDI as the standard for digital replication of
complex sound.




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