Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!umd5!lewhoosh.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Attaching sounds to actions? Message-ID: <7897@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 21:20:28 GMT References: <992@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1991Jan24.025448.1705@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 40 In article gessel@masada.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) writes: >I don't think so. I think it would play it on the machine you had >logged into. People might think you were in your office. If you put >stuff in like "get your hands off me!" you might scare off some >burglars if you happen to log in at just the right moment :-). Actually, it's humorous even if you just kind of have it play a random sound -- the evil laugh is nice for people who are afraid of computers, the HAL ones are nice for people named Dave... You can also just rsh it, too -- no need to log in. A friend of mine is in the habit of playing the Jetsons sound and trying to do it so I can't stop it (other than muting). This involves rshing, using /tmp and deleting the file, changing ownership so I can't find it with a find -owner command, etc. He's very tricky. Almost to the point of earning a disabled account. (:-), Jeff). >Seriously, I think this is covered by the public sound server control >in Preferences (or Workspace Manager?). I would say try it out, but I >suspect that if the public sound server is on, anyone logged in from >anywhere can play and send the console sounds over a tcp-ip connection >(the same way you can run your program on another machine and have it >send window server commands to your NeXT). If not, I suspect that only >the person logged into the Console itself has the right to send sounds >through the sound port. It's in Preferences, under Unix Expert options. If you have root's public sound server turned ON, anyone can play sounds remotely, UNLESS the person logged in to the console has turned it off, and you aren't root. >Daniel Mark Gessel Independent Software Consultant If you're root, you're God. :-) ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet) ------ Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?