Comments on: How to learn Morse code in GNU/Linux

By: pr3nt1c3

pr3nt1c3 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:13:48 +0000

I found out about morse from catb.org….. however I can’t get it to integrate with my sound card / alsa. I’ve done everything I can, but no luck. Has anyone had experience getting morse to work with bash, ubuntu and alsa… and if so, what (if any) settings / config files did you change?

By: N8SRE

N8SRE — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:04:24 +0000

Bit late on this one, I know, but if the audio is too loud or too soft, play around with alsamixer (or the graphical equivalent) and look for a volume slider with a name like “Beep” or “PC Speaker.” You might have to go into a preferences menu and enable the slider first, on some mixers.

By: Calum

Calum — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:13:44 +0000

Shame that on my laptop, the bleeping is stupidly loud, and the -v doesn’t seem to work.

Bah. -.-. –.- -.. -..-

By: jim smith

jim smith — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:51:56 +0000

send something back

By: Kelly Martin

Kelly Martin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:53:49 +0000

Neal Stephenson fans will recall Randy Waterhouse’s clever use of Morse code as a nonobvious communication channel.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:11:41 +0000

I think the captors might notice you blinking like someone having an epileptic fit, especially since they have it on videotape.

Funny thing is, I do remember that being used as a plot point in a Tom Swift or Hardy Boys novel (funny how those two blend together in my memory) from waaaaay back when I was still reading those things, and it didn’t make any sense to me then either.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:16:30 +0000

Learning Morse can be helpful if you’re ever kidnapped and video taped (provided they don’t kill you on camera). You can blink your location in Morse so someone might save you!

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:52:49 +0000

Try it without sudo then.

By: Kelly Martin

Kelly Martin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:43:39 +0000

Here's a Koch trainer for Linux: http://code.google.com/p/kochmorse/

By: Kelly Martin

Kelly Martin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:42:54 +0000

You really should use a Koch method trainer for this; listening to random character sequences isn’t a good way to learn Morse. I think there’s one somewhere that run in Linux.

And you really should be beaten about the head and shoulders for suggesting sudo like that.