I HATE midi files! It sounds like I’m stuck in the 7th inning stretch. I don’t mind that your screensaver has sound, but at least turn it down if you leave your desk for a while. Don’t turn it up to just loud enough to be heard, password protect your terminal, and disappear for lunch. I don’t want to have Winter Wonderland in midi bouncing around in my skull for the rest of the day! It’s common office courtesy…
(my very first rant… )
I think everybody in an office setting that leaves their sound on high, should have their speakers removed from there PC’s and have them shoved up their ass.
Yeah, the sound of that would be way preferable.
Plus, it’d tickle.
Can’t you just walk over to the person’s computer and unplug the speakers, or at least turn them down if there’s an external volume control? Better yet (unless doing so would mean more work for you because of any lost work on their machine), unplug the whole system if you can, and then plug it back in, that way there is no incriminating evidence, they’ll just think the system rebooted on its own somehow. Maybe this will give the offending person the hint, especially if it’s a recurring problem.
Possibly the computer is a POS that only has an internal speaker. I’d think that unplugging and replugging the system wouldn’t help if the sound comes from the screensaver, too.
To the OP: If they start doing this with the Hamster Dance website, they’re trying to piss you off.
If it is loud enough to distract you unplug it and leave it unplugged. It is causing a migraine and hampering your productivity, this costs your company money. You are not being difficult, you are making a financially prudent decision on behalf of your employer. (don’t exaggerate things much do I?)
Seriously, unless you think themachine is doing some big database updates, rendering graphics, or compiling a big program or something critical… yank the plug. If the likelyhood of data loss is low… yank the plug. I have cow-erkers who do this exact same thing and it infuriates me, did I say yank the plug?
On a related note, what’s up with office phones that ring and ring and ring? Is the caller thinking “She has to get back from lunch sometime”? Or is it a computer calling, with some parameter set to “infinite”?
Hit the power button. 100% success rate, guaranteed.
Sometimes you can’t just unplug it because the speaker is internal. Not only that, the password protected screen saver is on, and the person has a sound every time an e-mail pops up.
I should just power it down, and be like, “What did I tell you about them IBM’s?”.
Situation resolved. She came back from lunch, and we went into her screensaver settings and disabled the sound. It’s all good.
Thanks for the suggestions. BTW, we have Compaqs with internal speakers.
It’s probably playing all that music because it’s hungry. Just feed it peanut butter until it shuts up.
Internal speaker midi is the worst! The worst!! I don’t mind midi files when played through WinAmp’s wavetable.
Usually.