From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 30 7:35:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AE537B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE46343E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@pythonemproject.com) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 0196388819 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D6F8269.D57535CD@pythonemproject.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:34:17 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Cat and computer tales References: <3D6ED5FB.9CFDCFFE@pythonemproject.com> <3D6F294C.20204@401.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > > Rob wrote: > > On to lighter topics... :) > > > > I'm interested in hearing about "Cat clashes with Computer tales." I > > have noticed that ours seems to regard my laptop as a competitor, > > thinking I have more affection for it then she. It typically will place > > itself between my head and the keyboard. One day it was purring very > > loud and annoying me, so I issued the command "cat /dev/dsp > file" and > > let it run for a while. I later converted it to an mp3 and played it > > back on my Klipsh system. There was this thundering purring sound and > > me faintly in the background saying "bad kitty, bad kitty". > > > > Rob. > > A friend of mine have (or had, dont know if its still alive) a > cat that for some reason saw it as its duty to make sure that my > friends computers was running allright. > The cat was often found sitting in the computer room, looking at > the 4-5 computers located there, and it seemed like he was > checking that all computers was running by watching power leds, > hdd activity leds and listening for fans spinning. > Occasionally, a computer overheated, rebooted or stopped, and if > the cat was around to notice this, he would immediatly go to find > my friend and tell him about it. I saw this happen a few times, > and I think that the PC speaker beeping when the machine booted > up is what triggered the cat. When it heard the beeps, it ran off > to my friend, and started walking back and forth in front of him, > making weird sounds, almost screaming. When my friend went to > check the computers and calmed the cat by saying that they were > running allright, it settled down and went back to sleeping, > eating or whatever it was doing before. > Im almost certain the PC speaker beeps is what triggered this > behaviour. If you were using the computers, and maybe did a > multiple match tab completion or something else that makes the PC > speaker go beep, the cat would immediatly react by looking > nervous and follow your every move. > > We had a discussion about this once, and my friend told me that > when the cat was just a kitten, one of the computers lost a fan, > overheated and started beeping like crazy. The cat, curious as > cats always are, went there to examine what the hell all this > noise was about. What exactly happened is anyones guess, but when > my friend entered the room, he found the cat stuck under a > knocked over fulltower case, pressed against the PSU fan, > fighting furiously to free itself from the spinning fan. > The speaker was still beeping, and my guess is that the cat > somehow connected the beating it recieved from the fan with the > beeping of the PC speaker, thus starting its lifelong fear of > beeping PC speakers. > > -- > R Thats hilarious. We have a kitten that spend about a half and hour one day just looking at my ethernet switch:) I think the blinking lights set them off. Another time and another cat- I was working on my laptop and out of the corner of my eye saw the cat starting to make a leap (3 ft away) towards my laptop. I stuck my hand up, and boom, the cat bounced back onto my bed. It never did that again. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message