On Sunday 29 August 2021 11:57:39 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 August 2021 10:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > [...] Catting /etc/passwd to it actually produces some sound, > > > albeit the accent is a bit... slithery ;-) > > > > And was an endless machine gun until ctl+c'd here. cat should have > > ended at some point but I let it hammer for a good minute. > > You actually tried it :-o > I knew it was a test exersize that would produce gibberish at best from that file, and that it wuld prove the path worked. The surprising thing was that cat looped it endlessly.
> I didn't expect anything meaningful out of it; just testing that > there's a path from /dev/dsp to the speakers. I was just too lazy to > find out which kind of sound format is digestible by /dev/dsp. > Funny, though, that it took so long for you. You must have a truly big > /etc/passwd... The usual stretch, I am the only user that bleeds if cut, living alone now, there are 3 or 4 others, "usefull idiots" playing in sandboxes they theroetically can't see out of. My web page is also this box, again playing in a sandbox so I have to jump thru hoops to update it. I set up iptables about 2 years back to stop the bots from mirroring it 2 or 3 times a day, burning up my upload bandwidth, and one of those bots now has a /8 on the end, and you just have to know who owns it. :) reads robots.txt, and then ignores it. > > Then sound in kino worked, quite well in fact. > > \o/ > > Glad it worked. > > Cheers > - t Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
