Hi Lim Swee Tat, Thanks. I've been using xmms for a few couple years to play mp3's and didnt know a thing about the alarm plugin, cool.
On Friday 12 September 2003 05:12 am, Lim Swee Tat wrote: > Hi Chris, > You might like to look at xmms-alarm. If you are using kde, and have > already installed noatun, you might like to install it's wakeup plugin > which should activate if you like to listen to music all day. > Both programs are really simple alarm systems. > > Alternatively, you can just create a simple cron job that runs at the > time you want, and emit a series of beeps or something. > > Last and not least, you can probably store your appointments in a > calendar based client like evolution or korganizer, and have these > programs start mpg123 or xmms or play some wav file at the time you want > the alarm to sound. > > Ciao > ST Lim > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:51, Chris wrote: > > Thanks for the tips on the firewall and the webcam. > > > > Now I have another silly question if you dont mind. Is there an alarm > > clock for linux. I hate having to stop and reboot each night back to > > windows so I can have my alarm clock. > > > > On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:32 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:32:38 +0200 > > > > > > "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ---------- quoting Collins Richey ---------- > > > > > > > > > All I can add is ditto; Shorewall is great. I might add, I'm using > > > > > it with the 2.6 kernels (now on -test5). It provides very > > > > > meaningful log messages (/var/log/messages unless you alter your > > > > > syslog setup). After my initial setup, I discovered that my > > > > > default setup was rejecting samba traffic from my lan, and that was > > > > > trivial to fix. > > > > > > > > Ahh, good point -- I did not try 2.6 kernel so far, and have a > > > > question: Is (and if yes what) there something "new" (some changes) > > > > in the netfilter implementation from 2.4 to 2.6? I mean, something > > > > like ipchains --> iptables from 2.2 to 2.4, or can I still use my > > > > firewall scripts with a 2.6 kernel? > > > > > > I can't answer that. I've only done shorewall/firewall on 2.6. The > > > only extra requirement that I found for shorewall is > > > iproute-20010824-r4 (masked). The rest was like falling off a log. My > > > generall impression is that the netfilter implementation changes are > > > only those required by 2.6 architectural changes and more bugfixes. > > -- [ QOTD: ] [ "I may not be able to walk, but I drive from the sitting > ] [ posistion." ] [ ] -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
