#Hal 9000 sound how to#
#Hal 9000 sound movie#
#Hal 9000 sound upgrade#

#Hal 9000 sound upgrade#

You can now execute the upgrade command in your terminal

#Hal 9000 sound how to#

This section explains how to play a sound after upgrading packages with apt:Īdd this line at the end of ~/.bashrc file : alias upgrade='sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade & paplay ~/audio/hal/better.wav' Yet, if you want the user to be able to shutdown, replace it by: alias shutdown='sudo -v & paplay ~/audio/hal/goodbye.wav & sudo shutdown'ģ. If you don't care playing the sound before prompting for the password, you can delete it:Īdd this line at the end of ~/.bashrc file: alias shutdown='paplay ~/audio/hal/cantalow.wav' The sudo -v command before paplay is here to ask the password prompt before playing a sound. This section explains how to play a sound when a non- sudo user tries to use shutdown. Shutdown: ' That's something I can not allow to happen.' Save file, exit gedit, and HAL should now speak on next session opening.Ģ. conf file in ~/.config/upstart/: gedit ~/.config/upstart/nfĬopy and paste this content: start on startup This section explains how to play a sound on session opening ( source).Ĭreate a.

We will use paplay from the PulseAudio server, so there is nothing else to install.

Of course, you can use many other sounds and customize your own HAL!.

We are going to use function.wav, cantalow.wav, 1moment.wav, better.wav goodbye.wav, and message4u.wav (old sounds from, find your own custom sounds from the link above).

More HAL sounds are available in The 2001 Archive.

EDIT : as pointed by Becerra in comments, is now broken.

Download the HAL sounds and store them in a folder, let's say ~/audio/hal/.

I'm waiting for more contributions, and I'll make a single script for all changes.

play a sound along with unknown command error message: 'I'm afraid I can't do that.'.

play a sound after a coreutils command (or any command) took a long time to complete: 'I'm sorry for the delay.'.

Just a moment.' Maybe, some script with progress could work?

play a sound when a coreutils command (like cp, dd) is going to take a long time to complete: 'Just a moment.

play a sound on second wrong sudo password prompt: 'Just what do you think your doing, Dave?'.

play a sound on first wrong sudo password prompt: 'I'm sorry Dave.new email: 'There is a message for you'.shutdown: 'I'm afraid that's something I can not allow to happen' / 'Goodbye'.At least, I would like it to play sounds on :

#Hal 9000 sound movie#

When HAL does go bad, he embodies everything we fear about all-powerful, soulless, heartless, calculating technology turned against we soft, squidgy, flawed humanoids.I want Ubuntu to sound like HAL 9000, from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick. Hal plays chess with crewmate Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood), and generously comments on crewmate Dave Bowman's (Keir Dullea) sketched portraits of his fellow crewmembers in hypersleep. HAL proves to be a strangely compelling character: faceless except for a single red 'eye ' even-toned and almost monotonous in speech a benign, though possibly patronizing genius far beyond the intelligence level of his human wards. Integral to this space odyssey is a manned mission to Jupiter during which the ship's computer HAL, who apparently malfunctions (though this is ambiguous), decides to execute the entire human crew. The granddaddy of cinematic AI gone bad is HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film '2001:A Space Odyssey,' which weaves a grand narrative of human evolution, man's exploration of space, and extraterrestrial life vastly superior to homo sapiens intervening at key points in our species' development.