I used to be able to listen to my neighbors talking on the phone on my
computer speakers.  They used a cordlress phone.  My new neighbors
probably have phones with cords.
Yasir

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:54:23 +0000
> From: Gilbert Fernandes <gilbertf@netbsd-fr.org>
> To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Static from speakers
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:43:24AM +0300, Laine Stump wrote:
>
> > Just to pull this even further off topic ;-)
> > - about 50% of the time, the speakers on my desktop PC
> > at home in Boston used to emit the sounds of some
> > local "the hottest hits of the 70's 80's 90's and today!
> > station.
>
> I had something close with my previous laptop.
> It was an Apple iBook 12" running BSD
> and last summer I went to a place called "Mont
> Val=E9rien" where you have an american cemetry and
> a military communications base. I was on the grass,
> typing text on my vi and suddenly the two small
> speakers were doing noise and I could hear voices
> that looked like a radio transmission, and not
> the kind you hear on fm radio...
>
> The internal DAC was pumping their radio
> transmissions to the speakers, but the closest
> antenna looked far away, much higher.
>
> I've not been there since.
>
> --
> Gilbert Fernandes
>