Alarm Clock

[David Holland]

Cool, thanks!  I'll install it tonight and try it out tomorrow morning.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway at dattaway.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:54 AM
To: Kevin Hodle
Cc: Apollo; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: Alarm Clock

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Kevin Hodle wrote:

> Maybe setup a cron job to run mpeg123 or cat a .au file to /dev/audio,
> or send a long annoying string of ASCII beeps (infinite ascii beep
loop?

Excellent idea.  Let's make an alarm clock out of an mp3 player:

http://www.snika.uklinux.net/index.php?show=xmms-alarm

ooops, someone already did it!  Here's the command to install it:

emerge xmms-alarm

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