Insyteful

I've been a fan of Max Barry since I read Jennifer Government a few years back, although I think I liked Syrup better. So when I read that Company was coming out soon, I pre-ordered it from Amazon.

Capsule review:

Fascinating and highly entertaining corporate satire featuring rambling, multiple-forwarded voicemail, a sociopathic but brilliant receptionist, meaningless mission statements, and a donut.

Read this. Then read Syrup and Jennifer Government.

Extract from the first chapter of Company: READ

I've been doing some work on the NetEqualizer and needed to find a quick-n-dirty way to generate a ton of network traffic between two linux devices. Netcat to the rescue!

On the client side:

yes BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB | nc 10.0.8.2 2223 > /dev/null

And on the server:

yes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | nc -v -v -l -p 2223 > /dev/null

Is there anything netcat can't do?