[GLLUG] Beep Toy-Program

[Karl Schuttler]

Hi all,

Some of you may remember my world famous beep scripts from back in the
day, including great beep hits like Smoke on the Water (attached), and
Iron Man. I felt inspired yesterday and wrote up this quick ruby
script which makes random beeping sounds reminiscent of old sci-fi
computers when your linux computer is doing anything that requires a
bit of processor. Required is the linux beep utility (apt-get install
beep), ruby (probably already installed), and your pc speaker turned
on (modprobe pcspkr and use alsamixer to pump up the volume).

wopr.rb
=========
while true
  if `vmstat|tail -1|cut -d\" \" -f2`.to_i > 2
    system("beep -f " + (200+rand(400)).to_s + " -l 150")
  end
end


Leave it running in the background and have a little fun. To test it,
you can always do a dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null to generate some
processor cycles.

Enjoy,
Karl
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smoke.sh
Type: application/x-sh
Size: 756 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20111013/6d501430/attachment.sh>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: wopr.rb
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 133 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20111013/6d501430/attachment.obj>