On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:23:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Shaddy.Baddah wrote: > > Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like > > dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down > > if they are the same vendor. And considering this is the absolute correct > > way, some of the other suggestions are a little "long way around" types. > > Never forget the power of the link lights. Flashy things am nice.
Hi, Nano! The blinkenlights approach was of course an insightful one, quite a few others too. Shaddy just rejoiced over my response (see ``purity -p nerd|grep ^100'') ;-), and felt an irresistible compulsion to rephrase it. Besides, s/he has other problems like replying both to me and the list, and [1]TOFU, besides being rude. [1] http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html > Back in 1994 our network cable ran over some flourescent lights, and > down the wall near our little boombox. You could hear network packets > travelling on the wire by the pattern of static in the radio. Cool :-) Cheers, Jan. -- A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q: Why is top posting bad?
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