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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!ftpbox!mothost!news-in.cig.mot.com!komondor!kadow From: kadow@msg.net (Kevin Kadow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc Subject: Re: what use does a soundcard have? Date: 6 May 1996 16:32:02 GMT Organization: not really Lines: 21 Sender: kadow@msg.net (Kevin Kadow) Message-ID: <4ml9i2$e5d@trotsky.cig.mot.com> References: <HAFNER.96Apr25184039@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> <4m5n78$3u5@sanson.dit.upm.es> <3189C4FC.167EB0E7@sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: komondor.cig.mot.com Originator: kadow@komondor Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18853 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc:16992 > But what use does a soundcard have under FreeBSD? I _think_ fvwm has > support for it (I use ctwm). But does anyone actually use it? Are there > games with soundcard support? Or even utilities? It's also fun to use sox and an audioplayer to associate sounds with various system activities. For example, my X-terminal at work barks when I get new mail (read about the history of 'biff'), and plays a sample from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail for messages marked 'urgent'. This can be startling to the cleaning crew late at night :-) My shutdown shell script plays a submarine 'dive' horn. Not practical, but fun. On a more annoying level, I read on the c.i.www.servers.unix group about a Sun system admin who's configured his system to play 'click.au' for each access to his web server, sort of the geiger counter approach to tracking server access frequency.