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Questions tagged [alert]

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Play sound on mac terminal

I have a script running in the background and sends me an alert every few minutes. I want the alert to be in the form of a beep. Question: How can I play a beep in mac terminal?
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How can I disable javascript popups/alerts in Chrome?

Sorry if it's been asked. I've already found several solutions that aren't working. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I don't want to disable all javascript, only Javascript alert boxes. The ones that pop up and force you to click OK or X to close…
CreeDorofl
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What process is making that sound?

My Windows 7 system makes an intermittent ding sound (like a single chime, or bell). I don't know which process does it. So, my question is: Is there software/method out there that can tell me which processes are currently sending output to the…
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How to get an alert when someone logged on my PC?

I wish to send myself an mail, a message or an alert when someone logged on my machine. Is that possible to configure on my Windows 7 machine?
Gowthamaraja Eswaramoorthy
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Outlook email alerts every hour? (not immediate)

I'm starting to use MS Outlook 2010 for work and I would like email alerts only to show up every hour or so, instead of showing up right when the message is received. Is there a way to make Outlook do this? After having gone through the Options menu…
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What is a pump failure on a computer?

So I have this computer at my work that was giving me an error "Alert! Hard Drive fan failure." Well, I replaced that fan and then when I was bringing that computer back up, I received the following message in the screenshot. It is a Dell Optiplex…
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TLS and Alert 21 after Handshake

We have a client/server running TLS v1.0 and keep getting the Encryption Alert 21 from the client after the initial handshake. They are using cipher block chaining and I've read where the block cipher input length being different than something…
IT_Andy
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How to make Terminal bounce its application Dock icon in OS X

In OS X, when a program wants attention, its Dock icon at the bottom will bounce up and down. In Terminal, sometimes I will run a long series of commands, like this: a && b && c I want to append a command at the end of this, that will make the…
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What tool can give me a hourly reminder?

I'm looking for a tool, that can alert me every hour with a popup and a message (like "take your medicine..") I'm running Windows XP.
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Open case detection aka intrusion alarm

I am monitoring ACPI and other sensors on my mainboard with lm_sensors. there are two entries: intrusion0: ALARM intrusion1: ALARM From what I know these are sensors to detect an open case, but there are no headers or pins to connect something…
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The Windows 8 News app is popping up alerts. How do I make it stop?

Lately I've noticed that while I'm doing other things on my Windows 8 PC, the Windows 8 News app will pop up an alert in the upper-right corner now and then about a news story. How do I turn that off?
user9528
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NiceAlert (suppresses JavaScript alert) equivalent extension for Internet Explorer

I live in South Korea which is full of cheap web programmers who don't understand accessibilty or cross-platform, etc. Many major Korean web sites are built by those kind of programmers and managers. So, there are some Korean web sites I have to…
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How can I be alerted when a process goes idle (that is, its CPU usage reaches zero for a sustained period on Windows 7?

How can I be alerted when a process goes idle (that is, its CPU usage reaches zero for a sustained period on Windows 7? Essentially, I have a long running batch process that is pegging one of the cores. While I am able to work on other tasks, I…
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Windows (XP+) Tool for letting others know what is happeing in the office (but not email, more like IM)

I'm looking at how to notify others in a kind of twitter way, but a bit more obtrusive, to alert them to something that is about to happen, or did happen or even is happening. e.g QA Website will be restarted in 2 mins or Code cutoff for…
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Is it possible to play a sound when a browser alert popup appears?

I want my Windows 10 PC to always play a sound when a browser alert popup window appears on a website (when javascript alert() function is called, like, for example, on this page…
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