Hehe, the 48 was great at controlling TV's. And since it has a built in system timer, I wrote a program to turn on the TV and amp, tune to channel 3, and sloooowly ramp the volume up until it woke me. After a while I learned to wake up whe it was pretty quiet.
The only "cheating" I ever heard of with a 48 was with the IR printer. A guy in the back would point his calculator at his buddies printer 2 seats in front of his and 1 over and hit print. Busted, though when the prof had his calc set to recieve.