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    Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    Hello all,
    a title in form of a jest, but I'm in front of the computer and my wife just asked me to time 9 minutes... I thought I could do it with the KDE clock, but apparently not. I'm sure there are plenty of complicated calendar programs that can do that, but what's the simplest way to do it ?!?

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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    Quote Originally Posted by dargaud View Post
    Hello all,
    a title in form of a jest, but I'm in front of the computer and my wife just asked me to time 9 minutes... I thought I could do it with the KDE clock, but apparently not. I'm sure there are plenty of complicated calendar programs that can do that, but what's the simplest way to do it ?!?

    PS1: you have 7 minutes left to answer

    PS2: if you want to really know how to cook a penguin egg, the answer is hidden on my site...
    There's a timer applet for the GNOME panel in the repos. It's called timer-applet
    we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
    -- anais nin

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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    To cook an egg with Linux:
    1. Overclock your CPU
    2. Take the side panel off your computer, and remove the cooling fan from the CPU heatsink
    3. Place the computer on its side, with the open side facing up
    4. Place a frying pan on the CPU heatsink and start up Linux
    5. Install the latest version of GNU stress, run 'stress -c 16', and get cookin'.

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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    I found a timer widget for KDE, but it takes so much screen estate that it's not something you'd want to leave on !

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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    Quote Originally Posted by dargaud View Post
    I found a timer widget for KDE, but it takes so much screen estate that it's not something you'd want to leave on !
    grab the little square and drag it.
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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    Quote Originally Posted by dargaud View Post
    I found a timer widget for KDE, but it takes so much screen estate that it's not something you'd want to leave on !
    Put it in the panel
    we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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    Re: Cooking an egg with Linux ?

    in terminal:
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    sleep 9m && echo 'your egg is ready, Mrs. dargaud'

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