[Ma-linux] perplexing hardware problem

[DonJr]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:19 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> DonJr writes:
> > Oh you mean things like:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install beep
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # 
> >    beep -l 500 -f 500
> >    beep -l 250 -f 1000
> >    beep -l 250 -f 2000
> >    beep -l 500 -f 500
> >    beep -l 100 -f 2000
> >    beep -l 500 -f 1000
> >    beep -l 250 -f 2000
> >    beep -l 250 -f 3000
> 
> Ah, that's rather ugly! <grin>
> 
> Would you please tune up? It's not important to tune A to 440 Hz, but
> you should tune up. Pick a center freq, and tune--Pythagorean,
> Justinian, Equal Temepered, Mean Tone, or modern tonal chromatic -- but
> tune up, for heaven's sake.
> 
> Grrr. Engineers.
> 
> <big grin>
> 
> Janina

<GRIN>

But that is almost just like how my Hayes 300 modem (from early 80)
sounded whenever it connected up. <G> Completely off pitch. <G>

For a long time the above was part of my Firewall system's, until an
upgrade broke "beep".

-- 
 DonJr