I used to have a phone with an IR sensor that you could program with the signals from your regular TV remote controls. I had a lot of fun convincing people their TV was broken or haunted as it "magically" turned on and off.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Back in the early 2000s, I was working at a global ISP as an SA. In addition to the large-screen devices that the enterprise monitoring displayed to, our monitoring center had a few large-screen TVs in the room. The monitoring center also had a big glass window that opened out into the hallway that we had to walk through to get back to our desks. Every so often, I would bring a universal remote with me to work and, as I'd pass by the window (either going to or coming back from) for lunch, I'd use the control to switch the TVs' channels and max their volumes.
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I used to have a phone with an IR sensor that you could program with the signals from your regular TV remote controls. I had a lot of fun convincing people their TV was broken or haunted as it "magically" turned on and off.
Back in the early 2000s, I was working at a global ISP as an SA. In addition to the large-screen devices that the enterprise monitoring displayed to, our monitoring center had a few large-screen TVs in the room. The monitoring center also had a big glass window that opened out into the hallway that we had to walk through to get back to our desks. Every so often, I would bring a universal remote with me to work and, as I'd pass by the window (either going to or coming back from) for lunch, I'd use the control to switch the TVs' channels and max their volumes.