[SunRescue] Sleds..

[David Rouse]

> Does anyone have any SS10 drive sleds?  I need three, but at least one
> would be adequate.  Also, does anyone know how to give users 
permission
> to /dev/audio that aren't root?  I'm going to use my newest aquisition
> as an alarm clock among many other things, but as soon as I put
> something in cron it doesn't work.  I'm using the audioplay command.

Good, I'm not the only one. Keeping your regular user logged in will 
work, as whoever is logged to the console gets permission to use the 
audio device -- but I just gave up and let root cron it.There is a file 
in /etc that controls which devices get switched over to a user logged 
into the console, but I couldn't find any way it could help a cron job. 
The little demo sound rooster makes a good alarm clock noise, but I'm 
looking at mpg123 as the next step.

Hey (in an almost totally unrelated train of thought) is there text to 
speech software for Unix? I've got an idea for a 'robot dj' mpg123 
jukebox thing -- and it would cool if the computer could read out loud 
the track titles. In my mind I'm seeing a web page where people can 
select the music playing in my house ... shades of icepick.

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David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus