This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: I am so bored
Article: 7433 of alt.hackers From: dchin@goophy.physics.orst.edu (David Chin) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: I am so bored Date: 21 Feb 1995 06:31:29 GMT Organization: Dept. of Physics, Oregon State University, OR, USA Lines: 48 Approved: I hope so Message-ID: 3ic1c1$89t@gaia.ucs.orst.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: goophy.physics.orst.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
David A. Wagner (dawagner@flagstaff.princeton.edu) wrote: > In article <1995Feb13.092210.15981@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>, > <dogan@ceng.metu.edu.tr> wrote: > > sitting by myself, I decided to turn on and off the loghts f my pc. > > The Capslock,numlock,.. : yeah the three lights on the keyboard. > Two guys (Unix gods!) who used to go to school here wrote > a program to do this on a Sun; I'll include it below for > amusement value. [Hope they don't mind.] My first post. And, "no hack too small", so here goes: ObHack: To do the stupid LED thing on IBM's Xstations requires just a little script. Great fun to play with since one can control any Xstation hooked up to a single machine. I've seen wonderful looks on people's faces... #!/bin/sh disp=$1 xsett="xset -display $disp" $xsett led 2; $xsett -led 2; $xsett led 3; $xsett -led 3; $xsett led 1; $xsett -led 1; $xsett led 3; $xsett -led 3; $xsett led 2; $xsett -led 2; Will try a better ObHack next time. -- David Chin Cornell University '92 Oregon State University '?? _________________________________________________________________________ Internet: | dchin@graphy.physics.orst.edu | Phone: (503) 752-3632 _________________________________| Add: 101 NW 23rd St., | Corvallis, "In short, in matters vegetable, | OR 97330 animal, and mineral ..." | _________________________________|_______________________________________
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