Johnathan Nightingale ([info]johnath) wrote,
@ 2004-01-19 22:12:00
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Such is the ridiculousness of my life:

I just received email from the US military.

About beep.

wtf?

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[info]theheathen
2004-01-19 08:17 pm UTC (link)
and what, pray tell, did said email say?

or is that classified? :)

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[info]smallstar
2004-01-19 09:38 pm UTC (link)
That is so very cool/hilarious. :) What did they say?

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[info]johnath
2004-01-20 06:13 pm UTC (link)
Well. I suppose technically Rex Whitten does not speak for the ENTIRE military industrial complex, but he is @us.army.mil. :) They wanted to know about beep's latency and stuff - whether there is much overhead in getting it to run, especially nested in other programs. He mentioned doing work with presenting status information using beeps -- I guess on systems that can't use more sophisticated audio for whatever reason. I suppose if I told you any more I'd be shot...

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[info]smallstar
2004-01-20 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Hehe... that's neat. :) Did you manage to include some covert pro-Canada propaganda in your reply?

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Those questions and one more
[info]chichiri_no_da
2004-01-20 06:19 am UTC (link)
And what is beep? Since I'm at work, and I can't DL any of the files to see what they are for.

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Re: Those questions and one more
[info]johnath
2004-01-20 06:15 pm UTC (link)
beep is a program that beeps. :) That's really about it. From my site:

-- SNIP --
beep

I wrote a program for linux in university. It makes the PC speaker beep. I would like to say that, in so doing, it creates world peace, or money, or even causes reasonably well-tempered sheep to appear, but in actual fact it just beeps.

It is no word of a lie when I say that this program has been downloaded more than 50,000 times. People have sent me versions that play morse code, that run on Solaris and BSD, and that tune guitars. People have made versions that will work with RedHat. They have sponsored it for inclusion in Debian and Gentoo. They have, in general, put forth an amount of work and support which, taken collectively and in the context of what the program actually does, is simply, ridiculously, fabulous. I am not a zealot for this whole Free Software/Open Source shebang, but every single time I think about this program I smile. Geeks of the world unite, indeed.

-- END SNIP --

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[info]paradox35
2004-01-20 11:51 am UTC (link)
Whohoo...way to go US miliary. Obviously they have no problems that are a little more pressing... *laughter*

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johnath.com seems to be down ...
(Anonymous)
2004-04-19 03:22 pm UTC (link)
johnath.com seems to be down right now.
netcraft.com, anonymizer.ru and my browser cant resolve the hostname,
whois shows the domain registered till 15.06.04 but is not used right now
(no IP).

How do you think about hosting it on sourgeforge or something since it seems to be very popular ...

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2007-11-22 08:51 pm UTC (link)
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