Subject: Re: Where's the Beep?
To: Cliff Crawford <cjc26@cornell.edu>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/10/2000 22:59:47
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:01:57PM -0500, Cliff Crawford wrote:
> * David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca> menulis:
> > I remember a wonderful post suggesting something like
> > 
> > echo 'BPBPBPBPBP' > /dev/speaker
> > 
> > while running tape backups.
> 
> Er, maybe I'm just dense, but what would be the point of this?
> Especially if you do your backups at, say, 4 a.m. when there's no one
> around to hear the beeping..:)

Trust me. You'll have to try it to get the pun. :-)

-- 
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mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville