[geeks] Alarms, or why I hate computers

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 jodys at helluin.org wrote:

> No joy. Score Unix 1 - Jody 0. Maybe SGI make some nifty OpenGL alarm clock,
> with 3D rotating numbers or something, but I don't want to spend the time
> sifting through /usr to find it.

I use a pair of scripts:

~/bin/annoy.sh:

   #!/bin/sh
   echo ^V^G
   sleep 1
   exec $0

~/bin/wakeup.sh:

   #!/bin/ksh
   if ["$2" = ""]; then
     echo "Usage: wakeup.sh hours minutes"
     exit
   fi

   sleep $(((3600*$1)+(60*$2)))
   wakeup.sh

On the powerbook, wakeup.sh tells iTunes to start playing my main
playlist starting at a random song, but on the other machines, it just
beeps.  Actually, no, on the Indy, I have it playing MP3s via amp.

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