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<h1>A nice way to wake up in the morning</h1>
<p align="center"><b>Written by:</b> that dude who just works here</p>
<p> Some people have trouble waking up in the morning, here's a quick
way to fix that. </p>
<p> Create the script wakeup.sh in your home directory: </p>
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#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting up"
mpg123 /path/to/nice/music/* &
for (( i = 1; i <= 100; i++ )) do
echo "Setting volume at $i"
setmixer vol $i
echo "Sleeping 10 seconds..."
sleep 10s
done
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<p> Add the following to your crontab: </p>
<p> <pre> 0 11 * * * /home/foobar/wakeup.sh </pre> </p>
<p> Of course, you might want to get up before 11 am. </p>
<p> If you have trouble finding some nice wake-up music I recommend
Enya, it's great for this purpose. I experimented with heavy metal music
at first, thinking that I needed hard music to get me up, but I found
that I would just leap out of bed, turn off the speakers and crawl back.
A gentle awakening works much better. </p>
<p> If you wanna be really clever, you could add a snooze function to
this, so that you can just slam your hand down on a keyboard lying next
to your bed and it will stop for 10 minutes, then restart the whole
process. </p>
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