[TAG] Where to send more 2c TIPS?

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:32:56 +0200 (CEST)
flavio at polettix.it wrote:

> [I would be grateful if you don't include my e-mail address - even in
> faked mode - in any publication of any part of this e-mail. I already
> have enough spam :]

Duly noted, thank you.


> Here comes my first question:
> 
> "Where is one decent guy supposed to send its 2c tips?!?"

Right here, to this very address. This is all mentioned in the FAQ that
we've all slaved over:

http://linuxgazette.net/faq/index.html

> I remember those neat, fast 2c tips in the golden age, but now I only
> see some kind of TAG satellite section!

I'm not quite sure what you're looking at, or indeed whether it is a
mirror site that for whatever reason has not synced yet. The number of
2c-tips has been in decline, for all the reasons outlayed in issue
103-104.

> To the authors/proofreaders: I tried to seek inside /dev to see if
> there is any tcp or udp device, but found neither - that's why I claim
> that these devices are bash-interpreted. If you know more about
> this... correct please!

They're not defined by the shell, nor are they related to it -- they're
just named FIFOs that the kernel defines are virtual when a port needs
to be listened on.

-- Thomas Adam

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