Re: :-)

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

Steven Pritchard wrote:

> Chris Maple said:
> > I'm trying to figure out a way to keep myself online with a dialup
> > acount
> > is there a way to creat a timed ping or something like that?
>
> Keep IRC going.  That generates plenty of traffic.  :-)
>
> A "fetchmail -ad 600" will pull your mail down every 10 minutes, which
> would probably also be enough to keep your connection up.
>
> If all else fails, I suppose you could do "ping -i 300 -c 1
> [somehost]" to send out a ping every 5 minutes, but that's cheating.  ;)

For people looking for regular bandwidth hogs to fool your ISP's
autokiller, might I suggest one of the Slashdot ticker apps.  I only know
of two recent ones: the GNOME SlashApp panel applet (which I use) and
another one I saw somewhere written in GTKPerl.

Works for me (on FamVid).



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