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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Wake up to the music

Posted on 10:34 by Unknown

Using cron/mplayer and some shell glue you can create your own musical alarm clock to wake you up everyday. Ever since the Cron-MP3 alarm clock was published some years ago, it never ceases to dazzle me what you can do with little creativity.

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