beep story
Hi Debian!
I just noticed the beep package. It makes your PC speaker beep with
frequency and duration as variables.
Is there a way to find out how long a Debian package has been around?
I fiddled with this years ago and ended up with a beeper that could do
just that: the idea copied from a window$ program.
Until... Backstreet Ruby disabled the speaker because of the way the
kernel packages it: the former changes the way keyboards are read by the
kernel, so no more speaker.
So... I wrote a NAS beeper, that does the very same thing but uses the
Netword Audio System for sound. Which has a peculiar problem that it
queues sounds. So if one cannot be played for some reason, none
thereafter get played either and the program calling NAS waits. So I had
to invent processes that would wait instead and not the program that
wanted a beep...
Result: yet another working beep. I have a NAS version of vcstime that
does marine chimes and warns when the ISP connection got killed.
I liked the speaker version better, but you can't have everything...
Hugo
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