The Newbie Again

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:46:51 -0700


LOL.  You guys kill me.

George


Patrick Fleming wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:
> 
> > Patrick Fleming wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, George Toft wrote:
> > >
> > > > Qwest Choice OnLine (at least in Anthem) is VDSL.  It's plug and play.
> > > > Put a 10mbps NIC in the Linux box, set it up for DHCP, and off
> > > > you go.
> > > >
> > > > Link to my router --> http://georgetoft.com/linux/firewall/index.html
> > > >
> > > > The fun part is when the customer service weenie tells you to reboot
> > > > your Windows computer to fix the problems with the gateway box.
> > > > ifdown and ifup work quite well for that.  I still haven't figured
> > > > out how to fake the music.
> > >
> > > Just copy some .wav files from a Win box.... then play them in rapid
> > > succession making it sound like you just rebooted half a dozen times. I
> > > bet that would blow their minds.. =)
> > > Patrick
> >
> > telling them to face the music? ;-)
> >
> >   EBo --
> 
> Sure, play the 'tada!' until they start asking 'what's going on?'
> Here's a script even
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> play tada.wav
> ifdown eth0
> ifup eth0
> play start.wav && play tada.wav && play start.wav
> exit 0
> 
> My remaining Win box plays the Seinfeld them on boot and the "Soup Nazi"
> saying 'adios muchacho' on shutdown...
> 
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