Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 07:34:17 -0700 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cat and computer tales Message-ID: <3D6F8269.D57535CD@pythonemproject.com> References: <3D6ED5FB.9CFDCFFE@pythonemproject.com> <3D6F294C.20204@401.cx>
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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
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