Re: sound vanished with a reboot?
On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:24:23 Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:16:58 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > My hearings direction finder isn't as good as it was even 20 years
> > ago, and it was just last night that I discovered the kmail beep
> > isn't mono on center, its either the pc's own speaker, or right
> > channel only, and I strongly suspect its the pc's own speaker that
> > is making the incoming mail beep. From where I sit, the direction
> > of the right speaker and the pc's speaker are in line but one is on
> > the table and one is under the table.
>
> Most single-pitch sounds aren't directional inside a room, just move
> your ears around a few feet and see how many different directions you
> hear it from. You're hearing the standing wave pattern set up between
> the walls, and 'loudest is where it's coming from' gets fooled.
>
> I once spent several hours trying to find out why my server had
> started beeping for a minute at midnight, quite loudly. Cron and
> anacron seemed innocent, but *something* was causing it. I tried
> software disabling the internal speaker, no good.
>
> Eventually I tried standing in front of the server at the witching
> hour, with the door open, hoping to get a directional fix on the beep.
> I did... it was coming from the nearby weather station, which unknown
> to me had two alarms, which were trivial to enable if you hit the
> wrong button when setting the barometric pressure...
>
> --
> Joe
Chuckle, war stories, love 'em joe. After 53 years in broadcast
engineering, I have several of those myself.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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