[SWLUG] Decent alarm program?

[Bryn Reeves]

On 20:59 Sun 30 Jan     , Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 02:20, Neil Jones wrote:
> > I am looking for something that can pop reminders up on the screen to remind 
> > me that a certain time has arrived.
> > 
> > The sort of thing I am looking for is something that reminds me to check the 
> > stove/oven etc to prevent me burning my supper because I am coding away at an 
> > interesting problem ans have lost count of the passage of time.
> 
> sleep 120;  xmessage "turn the oven off"
> 
> that do you ? ;)

Or use the at daemon, e.g:

[bryn at bishop bryn]$ at teatime
at> xmessage "tea?"
at> <EOT>
job 1 at 2005-02-15 16:00

If it's recurring, then why not just use cron?

Cheers,

Bryn.