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jasonlane:
Why not just run a Cron script at a certain time????

Leaner , lighter and you actually learn something all at the same time.

It's what CLOXTEN will be doing anyway.

Faust:
Cron wont turn your computer on so you either have to leave it on (thus keeping you awake all night) or wake up and turn on your computer to get woken up by the cron script alarm.  

I do agree it would be better than this cloxten though...

suselinux:
Ok I got something working, it's really stupid, and you need to leave your computer on all the time, buyt hey it works.  It's probably over complicated but (shrug).   Basically you wake up to a realplay news brodcast (mine is the Canadian news version[CBC])

first download, or if you have it KAlarm (came with KDE3.1 don't know about prior versions of KDE)

set the time to when you want to get up.....duh  :D  

you should see the KAlarm icon in your quick launch bay in your KDE bar.

two open KControl goto

-sound and multimedia

--sytem notifications

---KDE System notifications

----Something special happened in the program (that is the title, not me talking)

at the bottom of the entire menu you will see a "more options" button click it

then choose execute program by "X"ing the box beside that feild

fill in the execute program field with mozilla, or what ever browser you want

open that browser, and goto http://www.cbc.ca/news/video_console/

make this site your homepage, and configure your browser to open to hompage on startup

now open KAlarm choose the time you have set from the window that pops up, from the configuration window that pops up next choose the "TRY" button

and tadda you have your system set for you to wake up to Canadian news!!


So you need:

KDE

Realplayer for Linux
             
A browser with the realplay plugin  
and Java (mozilla/firebird)
             
KAlarm
             
some time and the willingness to wake up to Canadian News (CBC)

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