[drewcoo]

In the time before CI servers, when I ran a lab of 'doze boxen, I'd use "net send" to alert the consoles we had for admins whenever there was an error a human needed to pay attention to. We'd decided that playing noises was too annoying. And because the test slav^H^H^H^Hagents were all on KVMs, it wasn't likely we'd see the screens of the ailing machines.

Once it was determined that "net send" was a security problem, thus forbidden, we found ways of alerting involving less spit and bailing wire. And fun.