Re: [orca-list] Useful piece of kit

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I had read on another list that an am/fm transistor radio can be used 
for the same purpose so long as it's tuned to an empty spot on the fm 
band.  It's necessary to learn the sounds of each machine since they'll 
differ depending on internal hardware.  The way to do this is to arrange 
situations when you know what the computer is doing using a speech 
synthesizer and listen to the sounds coming from the fm reciever placed 
on top of the computer then match those sounds later.  Interesting and 
next shopping trip I think I'll see what I can pick up.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Mike Ray wrote:

> No wonder I can't hear anything on the eighty metre amateur band any more!
>
>
> On 02/07/2014 17:55, B. Henry wrote:
> > And for ssd's you should be able to hear some noise if you put an am radio, (medium wave or maybe they 
> > even say long wave 
> > for this in the UK), by the computer. 
> > I don't have any ssd's to give additional hints, but more than one person has told me they do this.
> >  
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:59:49PM +0100, Mike Ray wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > This is definitely a bit off-topic but I thought I'd share this with you...
> > >
> > > Have you ever found yourself bending down to press your ear against the
> > > palm-rest of a laptop PC to try to hear whether the hard-disk is
> > > turning?  I find it's not always obvious when I have been pressing the
> > > power button long enough either for the machine to start or to force a
> > > shutdown.  Of course we don't have the luxury of seeing the LEDs.
> > >
> > > The solution is to buy a cheap stethoscope from Ebay.  You can pick them
> > > up for about twelve dollars or so.  Mine cost me eight pounds UK.
> > >
> > > No more cricking my back for me.  Now instead of my family thinking I
> > > have died and fallen over onto my laptop, they think I'm playing doctors
> > > and nurses.  But it's a great way to hear what's going on inside.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Michael A. Ray
> > > Analyst/Programmer
> > > Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> > >
> > > The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux
> > >
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> > > Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/
> > >
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> > >
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jude <jdashiel shellworld net>