Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jan 2006 16:38 UTC, submitted by Federico Pistono
"Why should you spend money for an alarm clock or a software that does an equivalent job, when you can just use you Linux box? This short tutorial will guide you step by step in creating an MP3/ogg alarm clock using your computer, it works with all Linux systems, and can easily be modified for MAC OS X, *BSD, well you got it."
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2006-01-02
Actually I wanted to contact you about this point. It is indeed true that it resembles your article. The structure is so similar that it seems like a 1:1 verbatim copy.
This is because I initially searched a lot throughout the internet and man pages to create it, and I also got into your good article.
However, I started to write one for myself, but having in mind your clear and simple structure I could not do anything but to follow it, even unconsciously. I DID realise that it was VERY similar to yours, but I figured that there weren't so many ways of putting it, even trying very hard. Probably if I hadn't read yours, I would have produced a similar result anyways, since I think you would agree with me that the complexity of the topic is pretty low.
So what I did is I rewrote the article with your structure in mind, but modifying all the parts I felt needed to be inserted, and omitting the others.
If you REALLY feel like you deserve a direct link quoting the "source" I think it's fair enough, just tell me and I will add a line quoting your work. I certainly do not intent to commit plagarism, I just did not think it was necessary given the situation.
I hope this solves the problem, if you have to feel any way you should feel flattered, if from all the pages I read I had in mind yours there should be a reason. ^__^
Peace.
Federico Pistono.