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peterthinking
September 23rd, 2009, 10:13 PM
I've run into a few strange ones....what are your favorites?
I like this train

sudo apt-get install sl

enter then type

sl

in terminal

sl -l

in terminal makes a longer one!

This one makes star wars run in your terminal?!?

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

peterthinking

SuperSonic4
September 23rd, 2009, 10:14 PM
THIS ONLY WORKS ON ARCH LINUX


pacman --version

Put
ILoveCandy in
/etc/pacman.conf and run
sudo pacman -Syyu :p

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:22 PM
pacman --versionPut
ILoveCandy in
/etc/pacman.conf and run
sudo pacman -Syyu :p

Must try.....

SuperSonic4
September 23rd, 2009, 10:23 PM
Must try.....

Ensure ILoveCandy is before the repository section though:


# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#NoPassiveFtp
#UseSyslog
ShowSize
#UseDelta
TotalDownload
ILoveCandy

#
# REPOSITORIES

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:25 PM
pacman --versionPut
ILoveCandy in
/etc/pacman.conf and run
sudo pacman -Syyu :p

Odd....



[root@localhost ~]# pacman -Syyu
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 77: directive 'ILoveCandy' not recognized.

SuperSonic4
September 23rd, 2009, 10:26 PM
Odd....



[root@localhost ~]# pacman -Syyu
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 77: directive 'ILoveCandy' not recognized.


See my edit xD. I forgot that bit xD. You could run any pacman command. I just picked -Syyu because it will show you for sure

Mike'sHardLinux
September 23rd, 2009, 10:28 PM
This one makes star wars run in your terminal?!?

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

peterthinking


That is pretty cool, but it isn't an easter egg or strange command, any more that going to a cool website is. You are just telnetting into someone's server.

Still a pretty cool server though....

peterthinking
September 23rd, 2009, 10:28 PM
Nice! I got the pacman game running but couldn't find a pacman.conf file to put ILoveCandy into

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:28 PM
Hmm..... I just did that. I didn't see anything:



[root@localhost ~]# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 33.7K 68.5K/s 00:00:00 [---------------------] 100%
extra 429.3K 109.2K/s 00:00:04 [---------------------] 100%
community 365.3K 120.0K/s 00:00:03 [---------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:29 PM
Nice! I got the pacman game running but couldn't find a pacman.conf file to put ILoveCandy into

You need to be running archlinux.

SuperSonic4
September 23rd, 2009, 10:29 PM
Your computer is probably too fast haha. Note that the [######] is now [------] though :p

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:32 PM
Your computer is probably too fast haha. Note that the [######] is now [------] though :p

I see. Small difference. You should also tell the ubuntu users you need to be running archlinux. They think you're talking about PacMan. The game.

peterthinking
September 23rd, 2009, 10:33 PM
This isn't about the pacman game?

SuperSonic4
September 23rd, 2009, 10:34 PM
I see. Small difference. You should also tell the ubuntu users you need to be running archlinux. They think you're talking about PacMan. The game.

There is a difference, I have a screenshot (although it's animated so hard to see really lol) but I won't put it up unless someone asks


This isn't about the pacman game?

No, pacman is the package manager in arch. It does the same function as apt in ubuntu. The OP did not specify which OS so I put in an arch one ;)

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:36 PM
This isn't about the pacman game?

Nope. It's a package manager for archlinux. Much like apt-get is to ubuntu and debian.

A_Fiachra
September 23rd, 2009, 10:36 PM
$ find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep "re\." | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -r "/^\s/d" | sort -u

A_Fiachra
September 23rd, 2009, 10:38 PM
oop -- no Easter Egg ... just strange

dragos240
September 23rd, 2009, 10:38 PM
I saw it! It's a yellow 'C' eating 'o's much like PacMan eats those dots. Nice!

peterthinking
September 23rd, 2009, 11:05 PM
I saw it! It's a yellow 'C' eating 'o's much like PacMan eats those dots. Nice!

So this is safe to run in terminal?

find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep "re\." | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -r "/^\s/d" | sort -u


looks kinda cryptic to me, hard to trust it

peterthinking
September 23rd, 2009, 11:07 PM
This one is cool too.

Have your computer make random beeps while it's locked and you're at lunch!

Cut and paste this into a terminal...

while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/1000)) && beep -f 2000 -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done

Or....

while true; do sleep $(($RANDOM/5000)) && beep -f $((RANDOM/10)) -l $(($RANDOM/100)) ; done


control c in terminal to stop it.

you'll have to sudo apt-get install beep if you don't have it.

wojox
September 23rd, 2009, 11:11 PM
Open Firefox and type in the navigation bar:


about:Mozilla

sisco311
September 23rd, 2009, 11:13 PM
classic:

apt-get moo
aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
...

sisco311
September 23rd, 2009, 11:15 PM
Open Firefox and type in the navigation bar:


about:robots

fixed :)

wojox
September 23rd, 2009, 11:22 PM
fixed :)

Thats a good one. :lolflag:

peterthinking
September 24th, 2009, 12:35 AM
That is pretty cool, but it isn't an easter egg or strange command, any more that going to a cool website is. You are just telnetting into someone's server.

Still a pretty cool server though....

One more thing...after Luke rescues Leia she freaks out and starts dancing and singing Never gonna give you up by Rick Ashley.
True story...I just sorta left it running and was like "Whaaaaat?"

dragos240
September 24th, 2009, 01:03 AM
Rick Astley

hansdown
September 24th, 2009, 01:16 AM
Type
free the fish in the terminal.

If you like goldfish, enjoy.

To stop it swimming across the desktop, type
killall gnome-panel

clonne4crw
September 24th, 2009, 03:06 AM
classic:

apt-get moo
aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
...


Awww. I was gonna post that.

t0p
September 24th, 2009, 03:22 AM
Type into a terminal:


ddateIf you're all like wtf? then run


man ddateof course. And Hail Eris! :p

peterthinking
September 24th, 2009, 06:19 AM
Type
free the fish in the terminal.

If you like goldfish, enjoy.

To stop it swimming across the desktop, type
killall gnome-panel

Alt + F2 then "free the fish"

free the fish in Terminal gives me this

peter@peter-desktop:~$ free the fish
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 477164 364832 112332 0 24272 136972
-/+ buffers/cache: 203588 273576
Swap: 1405648 27004 1378644