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[Samual Acorn <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

ive modemed 100MB before... (with a connection that could resume) 
2K/s ... thought i was going to go insane... 

anyway.... heres another interesting use of 'dd' 
format a floppy disk but dont put a filesystem on it... then find (or
create) an mp3
or ogg vorbis (best to use ogg vorbis with qval=0 to get the best
sound with the best compression) thats 1.44MB or smaller (or format
the disk to 1.68MB) and just

dd if=song.ogg of=/dev/fd0 

then to play it 

dd if=/dev/fd0 |  ogg123 -

witout a filesystem you can cram more on the disk... just make sure
its a -good- disk
(no bad sectors)

that and windoze and mac users will be totally clueless what to do
with your floppy single

(yes i know this is useless for any practical use but i thought it was
funny that it actually
worked..)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:43:52 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan
<keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Is someone really crazy enough to modem 100MB?  That was an odd example to
> pick.  It would be quicker to use floppy disks.  Or an old laptop computer
> with file transfer cable.
> 
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