OT: Linux Alarm Clock Suggestions? Follow Up

[paul cooke]

On Friday 10 June 2005 20:05, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > XMMs also needs to be left running overnight as well... it doesn't have
> > to be playing anything, but I use the goodnight plugin to automatically
> > stop playing at 00:30am and the alarm plugin to wake me up at 6:30am
> > with...
>
> Sounds like a waste of electricity to me, what's wrong with a normal
> alarm clock?

my computer is on 24/7 anyway... so using a normal alarm clock would be a 
further waste of electricity...

paulc at cooke-one:~$ uptime
 21:01:19 up 29 days,  6:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.23, 0.21, 0.15

29 days ago, before a motherboard, processor, ram upgrade and Ubuntu 
installation, this box had some 300 or so days of uptime...

as they say... Linux users keep it up longer... ;)