In a somewhat impressive mind-over-matter/software-over-hardware display of power, I just killed my PC speaker. I wasn't even trying to. I accidentally piped a whole bunch of splatter to standard out (tar -cz bigFile) in an XWin window. In the second or so before I killed it, it built up a whole lotta' beepin' that it needed to get off it's chest. Since the same thing had (also accidentally) happened a few minutes earlier (gzip -c tarFile -- some of you may have guessed that I am over disk quota), only to peter out after 30 seconds or so, I was not alarmed.
For your amusement, I have provided a transcript of the lab proceedings during the event in question.
T. EDMUNDS:
Crap.
P.C. SPEAKER:
Beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
P. KRY (Searching around the room):
What's that?
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
T. EDMUNDS:
It's mine. I just piped a whole bunch of stuff to standard out.
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
P. KRY:
And that makes it beep?
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
T. EDMUNDS:
Apparantly.
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep
P. KRY:
So... are you going to stop it?
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
T. EDMUNDS:
No, it'll just peter out.
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep...
P. KRY:
Just kill your window!
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beepbeepbeepbeep...
T. EDMUNDS:
I've already started another tar operation. Don't worry, it's about to stop...
P.C. SPEAKER:
...beep ZAP!
T. EDMUNDS:
Hmm...