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Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10
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If you spend most of your time in front of the terminal, leave is a useful reminder. Leave can have absolute form: leave 1555 reminds you to leave at 3:55PM
There are 6 alternatives - vote for the best!
If you can do better, submit your command here.
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It is not available prepackaged in the standard Fedora 10 repositories. It is in the repository for Ubuntu 8.10, but needs to be explicitly installed.
As noted in the man pages, the warnings are easy to miss if you are using multiple windows or 'screen'. A simple version of this can be created using calendar/at and zenity/dialog.