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Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wake-up dept.

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."

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  1. Within moments of this article being posted... by DietCoke · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM's warranty calls for failed drives shot through the roof.

  2. pffft ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless
     
    I'm waiting for them to enable the self destruct sequence on Dell laptops ... that would be useful.

  3. So I can use... by NoseBag · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...my laptop to detect opportunity when it knocks?

    How 'bout compiler engines? Will it detect knocking in them?

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  4. Won't work for me... by x2A · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...usually when I hit my laptop, it's because it's already frozen.

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  5. Thank you for calling IBM Warranty services... by RulerOf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... What seems to be the problem?

    "Uh, well, I was drunk and I, uh... My screen is cracked."

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  6. Knock knock! by modecx · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  7. I guarantee.... by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... that everyone's new password will be "shave and a haircut"

  8. The Best Possible Response by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Help, help, come see the vviolence in the system... help, help, I'm being repressed!!!"

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  9. Re:I don't know about you, but. . . by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    btw. hitting your wife is so 70's. Now its all about hitting computers.

    That is where most of us get our sex anways.....

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  10. Re:multiple desktop switching by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  11. The Module - with apologies to E. A. Poe. by Karellen · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.'

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