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Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop
An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, you can smack your computer and get a meaningful response! An article at IBM Devworks show you how to rap on the laptop case with your knuckles and have commands run on those knocks. Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless."
...using Ralph Kramden's wife.
IBM's warranty calls for failed drives shot through the roof.
Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless
... that would be useful.
I'm waiting for them to enable the self destruct sequence on Dell laptops
...my laptop to detect opportunity when it knocks?
How 'bout compiler engines? Will it detect knocking in them?
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
...usually when I hit my laptop, it's because it's already frozen.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
... What seems to be the problem?
"Uh, well, I was drunk and I, uh... My screen is cracked."
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
knock knock knock smack smack smack knock knock knock
It looks like you're calling for help.
Would you like help?
* Telegraph CQD RAPE RAPE STOP NEED HELP PDQ STOP
* Just signal your distress without help
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
1. chair impact detected
2. sell microsoft stock
3. buy google stock
4. profit!
... that everyone's new password will be "shave and a haircut"
So, will this allow a true port knocking protocol to be implemented?
"Why isn't the USB port working?"
"Knock first!"
"Help, help, come see the vviolence in the system... help, help, I'm being repressed!!!"
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
Typing ls was too much for people?
btw. hitting your wife is so 70's. Now its all about hitting computers.
That is where most of us get our sex anways.....
Monstar L
The most amusing of the Macbook motion sensor apps is Macsaber, which creates various lightsaber sounds in response to you swinging around your laptop. It's fun for the first 5 minutes until you remember how much your Macbook cost.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
I would hate to get owned by someone who didn't even have their laptop open.
Future of laptop communications between laptop and its owner...
Laptop owner (trying knock commands): knock knock
Laptop: who's there?
Laptop owner: me
Laptop: me who?
Laptop owner (frustrated, tries again): knock knock
Laptop: who's there?
Laptop owner: your owner
Laptop: your owner who?
Laptop owner: want your owner to knock you on the ground again?
Laptop: okay, okay, no need to become violent!
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
I've been able to slap some sense into my windows for quite some time now. It comes built-in to X11.
First off, choose a cursor theme in which the cursor for moving a window is a hand, such as any of the comix cursor themes in Debian. Next, on those rare occasions when a program misbehaves, hold down the Alt key to warn the window. Finally, click and drag the mouse anywhere on the offending window briefly, while the Alt key is still held down.
Congratulations, you've just slapped some sense into the misbehaving window.
It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious man page of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, to page down I started tapping,
On the case of laptop rapping, rapping to see one page more.
`'Tis a kernel module,' said I, `understanding taps galore -
Only this, and nothing more.'
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
Now what I want to see is software that monitors the knocking and phones home to us if one of our users is smacking the crap out of one of our laptops, so we can spring in on them and catch them in the act. That would rock.
What? All these jokes about knocking on laptops and nothing about bash errors?
bash: shave-and-a-haircut: command not found
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass