I've been pretty busy recently, so the weekly part of weekly links went out the window. Still, here's some interesting stuff I've found recently..
HP give WebOS to OpenSource - Good plan. Could lead to some interesting alternative O/Ses for things.
Tron Derezzed music - played on floppy drives!
EZ-Robot - Upgrade your old robotic toys to something way more cool
How gaming can enhance real life - Very interesting article in New Scientist about how gaming reactions can spill into real life. It's pretty rare that an article like this doesn't pull in all the classic negative stereotypes.
Stuff about building and fixing electronics, useful software and all that kind of geekery
Monday 16 January 2012
Friday 13 January 2012
Turn the beep off!
Random, quick tip - I can't believe I didn't know this already, but it turns out you can turn off the annoying DOS style BEEP from a command prompt in Windows.
Open a command prompt.
Type
net stop beep
you should get a response of
The Beep service was stopped successfully.
To turn it back on -
net start beep.
To test it type "echo [ctrl G]" - which will look like
echo ^G
on screen.
Open a command prompt.
Type
net stop beep
you should get a response of
The Beep service was stopped successfully.
To turn it back on -
net start beep.
To test it type "echo [ctrl G]" - which will look like
echo ^G
on screen.
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