On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:46:15 PDT, "Jim Gallagher" writes: > Old computer operator trick: [...] I put an AM radio near the printer > cable (RS232) [...] After a fairly short while, I could tell where > the page breaks were and I could tell one report from another just by > the rhythm and pitch of the RF.
As an old computer operator myself, I found that story particularly good. Thanks for posting it. :-) > These days, though, I use the sound card for so many other things that > I probably wouldn't want to have an audio freenet feedback. A little > visual gadget might be nice though! Yah. There's no doubt that such things should be highly configurable. For something as critical as a server log, an event-analysis program should be able to trigger a wide range of announcement types: background sounds, updates in a little xload-like display, beeps, popup windows, e-mail messages, and in some cases even auto-dialing a pager number. 'Same concept as the existing "build is broken" CVS e-mail messages. Of course, it's easy to imagine the disasterous results possible when a malfunctioning system falls into infinite-spam mode. Fortunately, these are easy to fix: "It's a simple matter of programming." :-) --Will _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
