Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-20 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Thanks to John's excellent suggestion about aplay on the command line, I have now been able to make the clock work on 10.10 and SimplyMEPIS8.5 without any apparent trouble. However, there may be some holes in the Mono implementation used by 10.04 that result in unreliability when initiating a

[Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread Simon O'Riordan
The 'Alarm Clock' utility is now ready for download. Read the Readme, choose your type, and if you want, give me feedback so I can improve it. Simono -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to

Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 19/10/10 16:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote: The 'Alarm Clock' utility is now ready for download. Read the Readme, choose your type, and if you want, give me feedback so I can improve it. Simono I think I tried the process version, in that I got everything that is in the top-level directory and

Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread Simon O'Riordan
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:48 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: I think the gold standard is that it should be at least as good as using at. For example:- joh...@liberator:~/simono$ echo aplay wakejap.wav | at 16:45 job 8 at Tue Oct 19 16:45:00 2010 joh...@liberator:~/simono$ echo aplay

Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 19/10/10 17:13, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Incidentally, did I remember to tell users to set the permissions of Sounder1e to 'executable' after download? I think that's the error. Meanwhile, I'm continuing testing. Hi Simon... I tried this just now and it seems to hide the error, but doesn't

Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Now that you mention it, today my Process version won't work on my 10.04 no matter what I do(apart from running the base application in the debugger). But it does work on 10.10. The error is very strange, could have sworn it was working on both yesterday. But maybe I'm mistaken again.

Re: [Dorset] Ready

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Merchant
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:48 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: On 19/10/10 16:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote: The 'Alarm Clock' utility is now ready for download. Read the Readme, choose your type, and if you want, give me feedback so I can improve it. Simono I think the gold standard is that