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Several years ago I was stuck in a data centre over night upgrading our systems with other team members who were working remotely. I was desperately tired and d
by cubix 18y ago
Several years ago I was stuck in a data centre over night upgrading our systems with other team members who were working remotely. I was desperately tired and done my part, but had to wait around to monitor things while the rest finished up. Instead of staring at the screen, trying in vain to keep my eyes open, I put /dev/audio to good use by writing a simple script to wake me when tcpdump picked up the traffic I was looking for. I was able to lay my head down, guilt free, and steal 20 or 30 minutes of precious sleep between testing sessions.
- sown 18y agoCould you tell us more? This sounds like a near-epic hack. I have an idea of how it would work. Whenever I tried dumping to /dev/audio it always came out too fast.