[clug] Countdown Timer

Hal Ashburner hal at ashburner.info
Tue Oct 26 02:37:57 MDT 2010


On 26/Oct/10 7:34 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
> On 26 October 2010 19:04, Alex Satrapa<grail at goldweb.com.au>  wrote:
>
>> On 26/10/2010, at 18:15 , Lana Brindley wrote:
>>
>>> I want to try and rig up some kind of a countdown timer to use on the
>> front
>>> of a stage to time talks, TED style.
>> Not hardware, not hacking, but here's my five seconds of research:
>> http://www.centraltoastmasters.org/timer.html
>>
>>
> Alright, so who's going to hack that for me so that I have 35, 15, and 5
> minute intervals then? ;)
You, Lana!
Just do it. You don't need to be an uber-leet k-rad hax0r of d00m. Just 
change a couple of constants in the code and make it exactly what you 
want, when you want it how you want it. Free software is awesome even 
for people less technical than me or you. :)



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