Did you ever find anything? Cheryl Homiak writes: > From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net> > > 1. does anybody know of a console program that can serve as a > stopwatch/timer? > What I want to do is start the program when I begin a particular task and > stop it when I'm finished or have to quit. I'd also then like it to have > the option of being > cumulative--i.e., if I stop what I'm working on before I'm actually > finished and then go back to it, I want it to start keeping track of my > time on the task where I left off when I start the program again. These > aren't necessarily computer tasks I'm wanting to keep track of time on, > though in some cases they might be, but I'd like my computer to act like a > stopwatch/timer with me only having to start and pause or stop it instead > of having to use a regular stopwatch. > > 2. Does anybody know if there is a console-based program that will allow > me to set my computer to function as an alarm clock? Of course, I know I > can find a sound file and set something up in cron, but I wondered if > there is a program out there. I am using grandfatherclock and saytime with > crontab to announce the time and play westminster chimes, but > grandfatherclock doesn't have an alarm function per se--well, I don't > think a grandfather clock would probably have an alarm anyway. > Any info on either of these two items would be appreciated. am using > debian unstable and did run apt-cache search and various words related to > these ideas. Anything I found looked pretty much like it had to be used > with X, with the one exception of the possibility of using "remind" for an > alarm clock function. > > > thanks. > > > -- > Cheryl > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
