Boredom Rules

[Alexander Morou]

This is just a frivolous topic about coding whilst bored. Sometimes it can create some very annoying results.

I was messing around in Visual Studio 2008 Standard, and decided to write some code for allowing a password to be entered. While doing so I decided that certain characters weren't valid input, like tab. So I wanted to present a beep with them. I didn't like the default beep and noticed that there were overloads, Console.Beep allows you to enter a frequency and duration. After a bit of screwing around I decided 'let's have some fun with this'.

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That's probably one of the most useless bits of code I've ever written. Strange how easily amused I can be when I'm bored. The above code basically beeps with varying frequency for 7 millisecond bursts, and sleeps in-between them, causing a noise that's best described as undulating and annoying. If you're wondering the min = 0 + 37 is all about, the minimum frequency required by the Beep function is 37.