Make sure you have ‘beep’ installed. Try it out by executing beep at the command prompt. If you don’t have it, just ‘sudo apt-get install beep’ and you’ll be on your way.
Now, open up a terminal, and paste this in:
while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done
Lock your terminal and go to lunch. When you get back from lunch, just CTRL+C to stop the annoyance.
Until next time!
-LightningCrash
(No I’m not a BOFH….most of the time.)
Oh that is hilariously evil. I particularly like the random frequency, and the relatively long waits between chirps.
How deviously awesome!
I modified it a bit, this gives it slightly random tone frequencies, and makes it beep a little more often, making it that much more annoying! woo hoo!
while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/5000)) && beep -f $((RANDOM/10)) -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done
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