1 I (Johnathan Nightingale) handled the original coding, distribution,
4 Peter Tirsek (peter at tirsek dot com) filled me in on where the magical
5 fairy number comes from (see beep.c). He also tracked down the relevant
6 kernel code that causes the ioctl()s to die under certain conditions
7 (see the README or man page sections on ioctl). He is truly a wonderful
10 Andreas Hochsteger (e9625392 at student dot tuwien dot ac dot at) contributed
11 several useful little patches, and was my inspiration for the -d/-D
12 distinction. He's also thrown pointers my way about code packaging, which
15 Rick Franchuk (rickf at transpect dot net) came up with the idea of the -s and
16 -c stdin hooks. Since most people will be using beep to tell them when a new
17 line pops up in log, or mail, or what-have-you, this was quite clever of him
18 and though I really did mean to do it anyhow, he sent me the patch before I had
19 bothered to write it, so he gets the credit. :)
21 Serge Winitzki (winitzki at erebus.phys.cwru.edu) suggested having beep take
22 floats for frequency, instead of int's.
24 The guys at freshmeat.net really deserve a big ol whack of credit too, for
25 running a very cool site in general, and for running one so successfully that
26 my little 4k program generated literally hundreds of emails in reply. It gives
27 one a great sense of community to see such an overwhelming response.
29 In particular, fryguy[at]freshmeat (Ryan Weaver) rocks supremely, for packaging
30 beep in RPM format, and maintaining said package until he decides not to. I
31 really did mean to make a spec for it myself, but hey, when freshmeat offers to
32 maintain your packages, you'd have to have a *real* good reason to say no.
34 Most of all - and I write this fully 10 years later, so I have the benefit of
35 history on my side here - I would like to thank Gerfried Fuchs, who has tirelessly
36 maintained beep in debian, along with a stack of patches, years after I stopped
37 hacking on it in earnest. He is amazingly dedicated, and has a new son whom we
38 would all be fortunate to have follow in his father's footsteps.