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Alert remote users that their system is still in use
Authored by: bdog on Thu, Mar 13 2008 at 10:38AM PDT

Another thing you can do is run this command on the machine (via ARD or SSH). osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'activate' -e "display alert "Your message goes here"" -e 'end tell'