Re: How to destroy Leopard/Vista/Dragon, all at one fell swoop

In <alpine.OSX.0.9999.0711061127260.379@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

Now that is an interesting idea. I'm going to write a bunch of zeros by repeating this octal sequence:

164 150 151 162 164 145 145 156 040 155 151 156 165 163 040 164
150 145 040 163 165 155 040 157 146 040 146 151 166 145 040 141
156 144 040 145 151 147 150 164 012

That should just be zero by your [MC's] reasoning. Is it?

Just to make it easier, that octal sequence comes out as the ASCII string

thirteen minus the sum of five and eight

I believe that according to MC's world view, filling a disc with that string would be zero-ing the disk.

-j

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