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                      wackyd README
              ( pronounced: "wack key dee" )

WHAT IS IT?
-----------
wackyd  is a daemon that controls the  LED  lights on your extended
keyboard. By default it sets the lights in motion in a Knight Rider
pattern. To wackyd that pattern looks like this: xoo,oxo,oox,oxo To
many, Knight Rider was a very stupid American television show.  Its 
only redeeming social value was, of course, the blinking lights.

WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT?
----------------------
For one thing, it should help you impress the chicks.  As you know,  
nerds are the sex gods of the new millenium.  Why? Skills necessary 
to obtain a good job  have changed over  the last several  thousand 
years.  There's not a lot of demand for a mastodon hunter any more.  
Now  firewall  configuration  skills  are in more demand  then club 
carving skills.  Chicks dig this.  A guy capable of controlling his
keyboard  lights  is  capable of landing a good job or, at the very 
least, capable of putting paper in the printer.  Either way, she'll 
be impressed.  

Impressing chicks is key but so is keeping your boss off your back.
Don't worry, wackyd actually has legitimate business usages.  Apart 
from improving your status with the ladies, wackyd also serves as a
notification system.  It listens for patterns on port 9193.  You've
mail??? Send it a pattern.  The NT server is down AGAIN?  Send it a
different pattern. Your keyboard lights will keep you informed...

HUH?
----
I used to have a utility for the Apple Macintosh named Wacky Lights
That program pretty much made the keyboard lights go from  NUM LOCK
to CAPS LOCK to SCROLL LOCK.  It was a freeware program distributed 
without source. This meant the Macintosh community was ahead of the
Linux community in wacky lights technology.  That  discrepancy  was 
cause for alarm.  We couldn't let the Mac Weenies gloat, to tell us
that we had to have a Mac in order to have wacky lights.  Something 
had to be done. So I took it upon myself to bring open wacky lights
technology to the masses.  So under threat of violence and moonings
from the Mac community,  I barracaded myself  in a room for an hour 
or so and developed an open source version of wacky lights. The gap 
had been bridged.

But now I'm thinking: Can't these stupid lights do more than blink? 
If a tree falls in the woods and  nobody is there to hear it... And 
if I'm notified that I've got mail but my screen saver is on... You
get the idea. A natural progression occured. Wackyd was transformed
from a pointless blinker to a notification system.

In all fairness, one person in this universe found a use for wackyd
prior to its morph to notification system. Colm Linehand writes:

  "I'd like to say thanks for making Wackyd. It's solved a 
  problem I had with my Compaq Linux box. It sits under my 
  desk, and I access it via SSH from my Win Box, but it kept 
  going to sleep because of something in the Compaq bios that 
  checks for keyboard and mouse activity. I installed Wackyd, 
  which solved the problem, because the hardware now thinks 
  the keyboard is constantly active."

Perhaps now it will keep Compaqs alive as it keeps YOU informed....

WHERE IS IT?
------------
The latest version of wackyd is available via anonymous ftp:
ftp://ftp.armstrong.com/wackyd/wackyd-latest.tar.gz

It is mirrored and available via http at joedog.org.
http://www.joedog.org/wackyd

INSTALLATION
------------
wackyd was built with GNU autoconf. If you are familiar with GNU software, 
then you should be comfortable installing wackyd. Please consult the file 
INSTALL for more details.

DOCUMENTATION
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Documentation is available in man pages wackyd(1) An html manual is 
included with this distribution: doc/wackyd.html. 

LICENSE
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Please consult the file, COPYING for complete license information.

Copyright (C) 2001  Jeffrey Fulmer <jdfulmer@armstrong.com>

Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that
the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus
giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.

Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this
document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions,
provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last
changed them.