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• #MAC OS SCREENSAVER INPUT OPTION PORTABLE#

When the laundry is done, it would use MacOS X's text-to-speech synthesis libraries (via the ' say' command) to verbally announce the machine's completion.Ībout half an hour of hacking and documentation-searching resulted in the 'laundry' command, along with a better understanding of bash's numeric 'for' loops and math capabilities, among other things.

It started by using the sleep command to wait the proper number of seconds needed for whatever cycle I'd be on (1500 seconds for a wash cycle in my building, 3600 for a dryer load). I wrote a simple shell script to tell me when to move my laundry. This morning, I started trying a slightly different solution. For a while, that's what I did, except I occasionally missed hearing it, either from being in the wrong room at the wrong time, having headphones on, etc. I could have used one of the other timers in my house, such as the one on the microwave. This really shouldn't have been much of a problem, at least in relation to my bad retrieval-of-laundry habits. Yes, it was ever so slightly tragic, and involved some amount of leaky battery goo.

#MAC OS SCREENSAVER INPUT OPTION PORTABLE#

It was nice, super-cheap, portable device that worked very well, at least until it died. I had a small minute timer that I used to remind me to move the finished laundry. It's not a bad amount of machines, except for when people leave things in the machine for extended periods of time. These three machines are to be split between the twelve apartments in the building. In my apartment building, there is a small set of laundry machines: one washer and two dryers. In high school, a friend of mine once said that I'd probably forget at home a certain, rear-facing body part if it weren't attached to my body.