On: Things Every Hacker Once Knew

[knieveltech]

Lol talk about a walk down amnesia lane. I'm now remembering a time I embedded a couple hundred ASCII bell characters in a war script to knock other highschool kids offline. Nothing would clear a chat faster at 2am than computers making a really loud noise that unplugging the speakers wouldn't stop. Ahh nostalgia.

[toast0 → knieveltech]

All the cool kids attach the power LED to the speaker headers, to stop your bell script :P

[knieveltech → toast0]

Nice try. BITD the bell triggered a piezo buzzer soldered directly to the motherboard. Speakers had nuthin to do with it.

[toast0 → knieveltech]

By the time I was on IRC, most people were using PC speakers, which were real speakers at the time. These days, you get a garbage piezo with your case if you're lucky.

Either way, the power led is useless, so better to hook it up to the speaker header ;)