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  2. Beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine.The term has its origin in onomatopoeia.The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.

  3. Acoustic cryptanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic cryptanalysis is a type of side channel attack that exploits sounds emitted by computers or other devices.. Most of the modern acoustic cryptanalysis focuses on the sounds produced by computer keyboards and internal computer components, but historically it has also been applied to impact printers, and electromechanical deciphering machines.

  4. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Macs made after 1987 but prior to 1998, upon failing the POST, will immediately halt with a "death chime", which is a sound that varies by model; it can be a simple beep, a car crash sound, the sound of shattering glass, a short musical tone, or more. On the screen, if working, will be the Sad Mac icon, along with two hexadecimal strings, which ...

  5. Buzzer - Wikipedia

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    Sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has been pressed are a click, a ring or a beep. Interior of a readymade loudspeaker, showing a piezoelectric-disk-beeper (With 3 electrodes ... including 1 feedback-electrode ( the central, small electrode joined with red wire in this photo), and an oscillator to self-drive the buzzer.

  6. ToggleKeys - Wikipedia

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    When ToggleKeys is turned on, the computer will provide sound cues when the locking keys (⇪ Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock) are pressed. A high-pitched sound plays when the keys are switched on and a low-pitched sound plays when they are switched off. [1]

  7. Constant notifications on your phone, computer are impacting ...

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    Serani recommends turning off your phone entirely during meals at home or when you’re out at a restaurant. Also, power down from technology every night at the same time to make it routine, she says.

  8. Macintosh startup - Wikipedia

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    Software engineer Mark Lentczner used the Apple Sound Chip, his innovation of sound for the Macintosh, to play the C major fourth chord used in the Macintosh II that was programmed in software. [11] Variations of this sound were employed until Apple sound designer Jim Reekes created the startup chime in the Quadra 700 through the Quadra 800. [12]

  9. Keyboard technology - Wikipedia

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    The keyboard sends the key code to the keyboard driver running in the main computer; if the main computer is operating, it commands the light to turn on. All the other indicator lights work in a similar way. The keyboard driver also tracks the shift, alt and control state of the keyboard.