screen savers wont run on my kubuntu help? --- Charles Bacon <crtb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry, I thought Linux + FreeBSD were close enough. > In FreeBSD you ask crontab to do your script any > minute of the > day, week, or year etc. Your script might have to > ask the audio > network database management control subsystem to > submit a half-second > MP3 file every half hour :-} > Chuck Bacon > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, walt kautz wrote: > > > hey charles I dont know how 2 make it chime.do you > > know how 2 run linux & windows on the same > machine? > > --- Charles Bacon <crtb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Here's my solution: crontab, a tiny shell script, > >> and a suitable .au > >> file for /dev/au. > >> Chuck Bacon -- crtb@xxxxxxxx > >> ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY > >> > >> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, sean wrote: > >> > >>> Does anyone know if the clock can be made to > chime > >> on the hour, 1/2 > >>> hour, or some optional setting? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Sean > >>> > >> > ___________________________________________________ > >>> This message is from the kde mailing list. > >>> Account management: > >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > >>> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > >>> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > >> > >> Here's my solution: crontab, a tiny shell script, > >> and a suitable .au > >> file for /dev/au. > >> Chuck Bacon -- crtb@xxxxxxxx > >> ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY > >> > >> ----- Add to your .crontab if you have one, > >> otherwise invent your own ----- > >> # Sample crontab entry fires off the cuckoo clock > >> once per hour, exc. at night. > >> 0 8-22 * * * > "/home/crtb/music/sounds/cuckoo.clock" > >> > >> ----- copy this along with cuckoo.au into your > own > >> bin directory ----- > >> #!/bin/sh > >> # Play the cuckoo clock for the most recent hour > >> hr=`date "+%l"`; > >> while [ $hr -gt 0 ] ; do > >> cat ~/bin/cuckoo.au > /dev/audio > >> hr=`expr $hr - 1` > >> done> > > > ___________________________________________________ > >> This message is from the kde mailing list. > >> Account management: > >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > >> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > >> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde mailing list. > > Account management: > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.