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Funny Linux Beep Prank

BeepHere’s one for Aprils Fools. install the “beep” program on your Linux box and then run this while you are out to lunch. It will play a series of random beeps over random intervals and will drive your co-workers mad!

while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

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  1. April 7th, 2008 at 12:23 | #1

    Tried it but no one smashed my laptop :( Guess I have to get one the old fashioned way and ask!

  2. April 21st, 2008 at 17:31 | #2

    Maybe you don’t have the “beep” program installed or you don’t have speaker. That’s my variant:P :

    while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f $(($RANDOM/10)) -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

  3. The Techno Alien
    April 2nd, 2011 at 02:52 | #3

    Nice, really nice.
    I’m no expert, but I would really like to mod so the beeps are a little bit more annoying, like a big pause, and then 10 short high pitch beeps in a row.

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