Inform me when site (server) is online again

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Published on 2010-04-11T02:10:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 2:13 UTC
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When I ping one site it returns "Request timed out". I want to make little program that will inform me (sound beep or something like that) when this server is online again. No matter in which language. I think it should be very simple script with a several lines of code. So how to write it?

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