[geeks] Alarms, or why I hate computers

[jodys at helluin.org]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:03:35PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 03:30, jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> > So, I haven't needed my alarm for awhile, and it's power socket is now
> > being used by the monitor. Well I need to wake up at a certain time
> > tommorow. So, stupidly enough, I decided that I should use my workstation
> > (an Indy running Irix 6.5.16m) to wake me up instead. I decided to do
> > this about 1:00AM, it's now 1:45AM and I need to be up at 9:00AM.
> 
> Here's my solution:
> 
> motomo at Skyfire:~$ sleep 8h; mpg123 /mp3/Iron\ Butterfly/in\ a\ gadda\
> da\ vida.mp3
> 
> Then turn up the volume on the speakers, turn off the monitor and go to
> sleep. Optionally, add a few more semicolons with 5m sleeps and more
> iron butterfly for a Ctrl-c snooze feature.  Sure, it's far less elegant
> a program, but i could trust it to do what it needs (assuming the
> computer is on a UPS that would wake me up in the event of a power
> failure)
> 
You know, that's a good one. And simple too, less to break. Thanks!

Jody