What about the ASCII beeps!?  People hate ASCII beeps.  An endless
stream of them would be motivation enough for anyone to wake up (just
ask jake, who sometimes uses a perl script on the box in my room that
'walls' messages that say 'wake up!' infinitely.. His ssh session
usually dies shortly after that).

 
Kevin Hodle
CCNA, Network+, A+
Alexander Open Systems
Network Operations Center
(913)-307-2367
kevinh@aos5.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway@dattaway.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:54 AM
To: Kevin Hodle
Cc: Apollo; kclug@kclug.org
Subject: RE: Alarm Clock

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Kevin Hodle wrote:

> Maybe setup a cron job to run mpeg123 or cat a .au file to /dev/audio,

> or send a long annoying string of ASCII beeps (infinite ascii beep 
> loop?

Excellent idea.  Let's make an alarm clock out of an mp3 player:

http://www.snika.uklinux.net/index.php?show=xmms-alarm

ooops, someone already did it!  Here's the command to install it:

emerge xmms-alarm

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