Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Re: [BLUG] How do you like to get rid of terminal corruption?

That only works sometimes. In this case I tried reset and it didn't
work.

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:55:46AM GMT, Jeremy L. Gaddis [jlgaddis@ivytech.edu] said the following:
> "reset"?
>
>
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> Jeremy L. Gaddis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blug-bounces@cs.indiana.edu [mailto:blug-bounces@cs.indiana.edu]
> On Behalf Of Mark Krenz
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:48 PM
> To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
> Subject: [BLUG] How do you like to get rid of terminal corruption?
>
>
> You know, disk encryption, 16 character multiclass passwords that I
> rotate every week, firewalls that require my approval for every packet,
> that was never really enough for me. Something was missing, so I
> decided to learn a binary character set and use it on nearly everything.
>
> http://suso.suso.org/mediafiles/terminalgarbage.jpg
>
> Now even the causual over the shoulder gawker won't know what I'm doing
> or who owns files.
>
> Ok, just kidding. I'm curious though, how do you usually like to get
> rid of terminal corruption? Do you just close the terminal or are you
> daring and try to reverse it by cat'ing out /dev/urandom or /dev/sda?
> Sometimes I'll try cat'ing /dev/urandom, but something makes me think
> that its dangerous to do that. Anyone know?
>
> Mark
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