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Panicking In Morse Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dit-dit-dit-dot-dot-dot-dit-dit-dit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When an i386 running Linux panics, a function in the kernel called 'panic_blink' causes the system's LEDs to blink. Andrew Rodland recently posted a creative patch to turn that steady blink into a useful message in morse code!"

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  1. Re:Lame site! by mkv · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm, maybe you could just try and live in this day instead of banging away on your good old vt-100? I mean, webpages _do_ look much nicer on a graphical display most of the time.

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