In our previous episode (Sunday, 29-Dec-2014), Arno Hautala said:
> On Sunday, December 29, 2013, Carl Hoefs wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2013, at 10:20 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Since we're on the topic though, is it possible to use the -n option to 
> > send a say to another computer? It would be useful to be able to do 
> > something like:
> >
> > -n name:port, --network-send=name:port
> >
> > say -n 10.0.0.5 "Turn down the Volume!"
> >
> > but that doesn't seem to work.
> 
> That would be awesome!

Yes, but I can't find anything on this outside of the man page.

> You could always ssh first.
> 
> ssh user@host  'say -n 10.0.0.5 "Turn down the Volume!"'
> 
> I think this might require the user have a running Window Server.

No, it works even if the active user is another user, but it's still a pain 
unless you've already setup passwordless key based logins.

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