[GRLUG] Now I;m getting a bit ticked.

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM, John-Thomas Richards
<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:08:31AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> The Wiki article says the aconymn is really a backronym.  It *is*
> onomatopeia.  It's supposed to be the sound of someone hitting one's
> killfile.  It's rather like the sound of an enemy Goa'uld hitting the
> SGC's iris on the Stargate.  Except it doesn't make a sound.  I keep
> typing, for example, `cat [username] > /dev/null' and I don't hear a
> thing.  Must be an ALSA thing.

Use tee and the OSS emulation layer to get a similar effect:

cat [username] | tee /dev/dsp > /dev/null


Make sure your volume isn't too high...
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