[Gllug] Yoof got mail

[Alistair Mann]

David L Neil Mailing list a/c wrote:
> Alistair Mann wrote:
>> I don't know the range of the internal speaker, but you can test it 
>> yourself using linux: beep -f 14000 for 14Khz, and it will make efforts 
>> up to 20Khz.
> 
> =hmmm, neither SuSE 10 nor CentOS 5.2 offers `beep`.
> 
> =At first I thought this was some incredible hack/wind-up. I entered the
> `beep` and was just reading the errmsg, when this 'ring tone' erupted
> from behind me. 

Just in case others couldn't find it, homepage is at 
http://www.johnath.com/beep/ -- kubuntu here picked it up fine with an 
apt-get.

 > In some confusion I got up and checked my phone: had it
 > run out of battery and squawked its last in some unusual fashion? No!
 > Nothing on my server. UPS is ok? Then I thought to look at a client's
 > WinXP m/c that I had just booted into Administrator - sure enough, the
 > HP MFP wanted to check for a software update and had issued the
 > bingly-bong...

Lol!
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