[Tfug] Causing a remote linux box to make a sound on a local windows box

[Stephen Hooper]

*All*  the options are variations of network messaging, and
triggers...  you are just quibbling about what is doing the messaging,
and where the triggers are pickled ;)

Have fun.  Just as a warning, I wouldn't play anything you want to
sound really good through NAS.  For a simple "d'oh", it will suffice.

On 7/25/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool.  I'd never heard of NAS.  I was wondering if something like NAS
> existed.  Most other options are just variations on cross-network
> messaging and triggers.
>
> -- Chad
>
>
> On 7/25/06, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You could:
> >
> > - ICEcast
> > - use NAS http://www.radscan.com/nas.html#DOWNLOAD (prebuilt binaries
> > for Windows that use Cygwin)
> > - Home grow your own.  If you want to do it with HTML/JavaScript that is ok.
> > - Send a email to a monitored account that triggers a notification
> > with the "beep" sound.
> > - Drop a file in a queue, and have something on the Windows machine
> > pick it up, and play it (something like Samba with batch).
> > - Send a smbmessage to the Windows machine, and change the sound from
> > the "beep.wav", or whatever it uses.
> >
> > Can't think of many others...
> >
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