Cooking an egg with Linux ?

[dargaud]

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...

[wizard10000]

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 ;)

[deconstrained]

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'.

[dargaud]

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 !

[inobe]

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.

[wizard10000]

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 ;)

[aeiah]

in terminal:

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