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Old 11-12-2002
Microsoft "Donates" $3,000,000,000 to U.S. Federal Candidates

Surreal quote from the news link below:

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Ballmer, who also had meetings on Capitol Hill, has spent the past 18 months attempting to improve the company's image. At the same time, the company has expanded its lobbying efforts and campaign giving, contributing nearly $3 billion in the 2002 election cycle, two-thirds of it to Republicans.
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IOPING(1)							   User Commands							 IOPING(1)

NAME
ioping - simple disk I/O latency monitoring tool SYNOPSYS
ioping [-LCDRq] [-c count] [-w deadline] [-p period] [-i interval] [-s size] [-S wsize] [-o offset] device|file|directory ioping -h | -v DESCRIPTION
This tool lets you monitor I/O latency in real time. OPTIONS
-c count Stop after count requests. -w deadline Stop after deadline time passed. -p period Print raw statistics for every period requests. -i interval Set time between requests to interval (1s). -s size Request size (4k). -S size Working set size (1m). -o offset Offset in input file. -L Use sequential operations rather than random. This also sets request size to 256k (as in -s 256k). -C Use cached I/O. -D Use direct I/O. -R Disk seek rate test (same as -q -i 0 -w 3 -S 64m). -q Suppress human-readable output. -h Display help message and exit. -v Display version and exit. Argument suffixes For options that expect time argument (-i and -w), default is seconds, unless you specify one of the following suffixes (case-insensitive): us, usec microseconds ms, msec milliseconds s, sec seconds m, min minutes h, hour hours For options that expect "size" argument (-s, -S and -o), default is bytes, unless you specify one of the following suffixes (case-insensi- tive): s disk sectors (a sector is always 512). k, kb kilobytes p memory pages (a page is always 4K). m, mb megabytes g, gb gigabytes t, tb terabytes For options that expect "number" argument (-p and -c) you can optionally specify one of the following suffixes (case-insensitive): k kilo (thousands, 1 000) m mega (millions, 1 000 000) g giga (billions, 1 000 000 000) t tera (trillions, 1 000 000 000 000) EXIT STATUS
Returns 0 upon success. The following error codes are defined: 1 Invalid usage (error in arguments). 2 Error during preparation stage. 3 Error during runtime. EXAMPLES
ioping . Show disk I/O latency using the default values and the current directory, until interrupted. ioping -c 10 -s 1M /tmp Measure latency on /tmp using 10 requests of 1 megabyte each. ioping -R /dev/sda Measure disk seek rate. ioping -RL /dev/sda Measure disk sequential speed. SEE ALSO
Homepage <http://code.google.com/p/ioping/>. AUTHORS
This program was written by Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>. Man-page was written by Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org>. July 2011 IOPING(1)