-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes applications like this would be good. have you thought of using at to play a sound? this is a one time thing and you can specify the time in a familiar format rather than having to edit crontab. The drawback is that if the atd daemon crashes the alarm won't sound, but I guess the same is true of any alarm clock program. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:59 AM Subject: looking for applications: timer/stopwatch; alarm > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQBTh7Cenap9Jqj2wEQKGOQCeJUE3RDWSA4GHxWmKLXtKC50vYkkAn3p1 mQAegJ+1k4xkloo2ptzCwi4c =anak -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
