[Gllug] Timer Program

[John Winters]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:40:36PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
>> Perhaps not as slick a user interface, but this should work well enough:
>>
>> echo 'aplay /path/to/noise.wav && xmessage -display :0 "Time is up"' |
>> at "now +25 minutes"
> 
> That's funny ... I actually did something like that once when I was
> stuck in a seedy hotel with only my laptop and no alarm clock.

The mind boggles as to why you needed to time 25 minutes in a seedy
hotel.  ;-)

John
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