Easter eggs in Linux

[Klaidas]

Ok, so I've been browsing the web today, and I decided to search for some cool Linux Easter eggs. I tested them, and here are some - enjoy! (P.S.: Also added screenshots :) )


OpenOffice.org - SatarWars game

1. Create a new sheet in openoffice.org Calc (spreadsheet)
2. enter this formula
=game()
and press enter. The cell will display
"say what?"
3. Now enter this formula:
=GAME("StarWars")
A new window will open with a little starward game. But if you type this formula again, the cell will return the display
oh no, not again!. To be able to play again, you need to close the file, close openoffice.org and then make the same.

Screenshot here (http://www.freepgs.com/klaidas/stuff/linux_e_eggs/OpenOffice.png)


aptitude moo

Type
aptitude moo & press ENTER. Aptitude responds with
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
Type
aptitude -v moo & press ENTER. This time, the response is
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program..
Ok, let's do more! :)
aptitude -v -v moo causes it to respond with
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?

Put some more -v and see those answers yourself :)

Screenshot here (http://www.freepgs.com/klaidas/stuff/linux_e_eggs/aptitude.png)

That's it :) Enjoy! :)

Oh, by the way, if you know some good linux earter eggs post them here! :)

[Bandit]

Easter Eggs are kewl thanks...

[Brunellus]

no WONDER openoffice is so friggin bloated.

[chimera]

chimera@HOMEPC:~$ apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...

[mstlyevil]

ROFLMAO! Who says Geeks have no sense of humor.


ozzy@fooker:~$ apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...
ozzy@fooker:~$

[briancurtin]

i was thinking something new might be in this thread

[ubuntu27]

There are no more easter eggs? :rolleyes:

[RAV TUX]

How about some Bagels and Lox instead?

[Dr. Nick]

Check out the starwars screensaver. It is sorta interesting. It pulls articles off the internet to display. may require you to install xscreensaver-data package

[Biltong (Dee)]

The star wars screensaver seems a great idea, but if it pulls things off of the Internet won't it destroy 'cap'?
In some countries (like South Africa) we are only allowed a three Gig cap and it's bad enough getting those 40 - 80 meg updates each evening!

[matthew]

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83137

EDIT: I just noticed you already included this one...oops.

[henriquemaia]

Nice info, thanks.

[SeanTater]

you want another egg?

go to the following address in firefox:

about:mozilla

[SeanTater]

I dare ya -- google this:
answer to life the universe and everything

see what google's calculator tells you

[MenZa]

Without having actually done it, I'm guessing "42".

[Dr. Nick]

The star wars screensaver seems a great idea, but if it pulls things off of the Internet won't it destroy 'cap'?
In some countries (like South Africa) we are only allowed a three Gig cap and it's bad enough getting those 40 - 80 meg updates each evening!


Good point, I dont kow exactly what it is pulling online, appears to just be text files so it isnt much download, but if your capped it may be more to you then to me

[Klaidas]

Without having actually done it, I'm guessing "42".
Right! :)

P.S. Glad this thread is alive again! :)

[jdong]

jdong@jdong-laptop:~$ bzr rocks
it sure does!

[bbking]

try google lucky with "miserable failure" :mrgreen:

[DirtDawg]

you want another egg?

go to the following address in firefox:

about:mozilla

Ha! Totally sweet.

[Biltong (Dee)]

try google lucky with "miserable failure" :mrgreen:

Oh, this is a classic!! Good for Google :p

[woedend]

hey hey...like him or hate him that's not google's doing, just some whiny geeks'. I do think it's funny though(and why carter as no 2?). As for an egg...I guess it's not really an egg but I found it cool...the ddate command. What is that anyways?

[dabear]

1)Go to one of your gnome panels, right click an choose about. Whenthe dialog appears, press f three times, and a *censored* appears!

2)Try a hidden game. alt + f2, then enter «gegls from outer space»(no quotes) and enter.

3) open openoffice writer. Write "StarWriterTeam " (no quotes) and press f3

[Biltong (Dee)]

I was doing some research on wikipedia regarding "Google Bombs".
It's really quite fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserable_failure#Google_bomb

[matthew]

1)Go to one of your gnome panels, right click an choose about. Whenthe dialog appears, press f three times, and a *censored* appears!That is uber-cool! How do I turn it off?

[Biltong (Dee)]

Its one thirty in the morn here and I'm too tired to check if any of these eggs work.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue89/vinayak.html
If they do, let us know :-)

[dabear]

That is uber-cool! How do I turn it off?You tell me, I have no idea:-?

and btw: it's über, not uber

edit: typo, as noted below..

[matthew]

You tell me, I have noe idea:???:

and btw: it's über, not uberAmerican keyboard, lazy typist...

and btw: it's no, not noe :)

[RAV TUX]

I was doing some research on wikipedia regarding "Google Bombs".
It's really quite fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserable_failure#Google_bomb
how do you make a Google bomb?

[henriquemaia]

That is uber-cool! How do I turn it off?

Yeah, how to turn it off? I guess I will have to log out.

[dabear]

If it's that cool, why turn it off? :P

Some more googlehunting:

1) Try typing these commands to show some funny distrobution names:


zcat /usr/share/doc/linux-image-`uname -r`/changelog.Debian.gz | egrep -e "Release"

zgrep "The.*Release" /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.Debian.gz

[void_false]

Go to one of your gnome panels, right click an choose about. Whenthe dialog appears, press f three times, and a *censored* appears!
After doing this I got some weird fish... It travels all around the screen. Take a look at the screenshot. I think it's because I'm on OpenSUSE 8) :mrgreen:
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.c16c2761e8.png (http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?c16c2761e8.png)
And when I click the fish it runs away!

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

After doing this I got some weird fish... It travels all around the screen. Take a look at the screenshot. I think it's because I'm on OpenSUSE 8) :mrgreen:
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.c16c2761e8.png (http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?c16c2761e8.png)
And when I click the fish it runs away!
I get this too...maybe it is only with Gnome 2.14.1. Wait, Suse 10.1 only uses 2.12 so nevermind.

[BoyOfDestiny]

Cool I get it too, although mine doesn't leave a trail...

EDIT: Why won't the fish leave...lol...

nm killing the gnome-panel makes wanda go away. Seems using alt+f2 and typing free the fish brings her out too...

P.S. It's a gnome thing, not distro related...

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

Cool I get it too, although mine doesn't leave a trail...

EDIT: Why won't the fish leave...lol...

nm killing the gnome-panel makes wanda go away. Seems using alt+f2 and typing free the fish brings her out too...
You can just click it too.

[BoyOfDestiny]

You can just click it too.

It still swims back. I must have clicked wanda about 12 times...
I like this egg though, I'm sure I'll have fun with it as more people switch to Linux and gnome. ;)

[void_false]

I was attracted by that *censored* thing. I thought it would be naked f-f-female. Instead we got annoying f-f-fish ...;)

[jdong]

Unpack some kernel sources, and grep for obsceneties:



net/core/netfilter.c: /* James M doesn't say **** enough. */

[reclusivemonkey]

hey hey...like him or hate him that's not google's doing, just some whiny geeks'. I do think it's funny though(and why carter as no 2?). As for an egg...I guess it's not really an egg but I found it cool...the ddate command. What is that anyways?

ddate gives you the date according to the "Principia Discordia" calendar;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar

Its popular with Slackware users, mostly due to its obscurity I guess ;-)

[Engnome]

AAArrrggghhh the ****** fish won't go away! :mad:

[djsroknrol]

How about some Bagels and Lox instead?

Good one Yozef...:o

[-Phi-]

AAArrrggghhh the ****** fish won't go away! :mad:Alt-F2
killall gnome-panelPoor Wanda...

Oh, and this one hasn't been mentioned yet.
Alt-F2
zenity --aboutThen type 'zen' (without the 's)

- Phi

[%hMa@?b<C]

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1607&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=656e25583e6e6e906e25c0c21039b6fa

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

I have one, if you have the nautilus-scrips (from Automatix) installed, right click anywhere on your desktop and go under the scripts folder. Then click on root-nautilus-here. A gui password box will come up and if you type in the wrong password this comes up:

[bodhi.zazen]

OK, I know it is an old thread, but ...

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Easter_Eggs

[kellemes]

$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.bugger!

[kellemes]

$ aptitude -vv moo
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?:)

[kellemes]

$ aptitude -vvvvv moo
All right, you win.

/----\
-------/ \
/ \
/ |
-----------------/ --------\
----------------------------------------------


:guitar::guitar:

[new2*buntu]

$ aptitude -vvvvv moo
All right, you win.

/----\
-------/ \
/ \
/ |
-----------------/ --------\
----------------------------------------------


:guitar::guitar:

and then do aptitude moo -vvvvvv

What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. :lolflag:

[LaRoza]

Cool eggs for Abiword http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/abiword-vi-mode.html

[ubuntu27]

and then do aptitude moo -vvvvvv

What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. :lolflag:

Hehe. That (Elephant being eaten by a snake) reminds me of "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Amazon.com site (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-8651968-5823962?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Little+prince&x=0&y=0)

^^

[FuturePilot]

In Nautilus go Go>Clear History. Hit Cancel and repeat until a funny message appears.

[Praadur]

I really wish I had something decent to add to this thread but the only thing I can think of after wracking my brains for a bit was the sudo insults (http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/18/let-sudo-insult-you-when-you-screw-up/) one.

This has been a particularly funny thread though, whilst I knew most of these the OpenOffice one was new to me... which resulted in a blank stare, followed by confusion, and promptly thereafter lots of laughing. This was then followed by more laughter as I tried the other eggs once again, remembering how funny they were (looks more like a Sphinx to me than a Snake eating an Elephant!).

Now I'm probably going to be laughing at inconsequential things all night, that happens when something has really tickled me. Not that this is a bad thing, of course.

[icechen1]

In Nautilus go Go>Clear History. Hit Cancel and repeat until a funny message appears.

If you do,you will be doomed to repeat it.

[Sam]

Another way to get wanda on the screen: Alt-F2, run "free the fish" (without quotes).

In vim, type: ":help 42" (without quotes)

[barbedsaber]

I think I have cracked most of my ribs, and its because of this thread.

[illbashu]

Yeah, how to turn it off? I guess I will have to log out.

every time the fish comes on the screen click on it and it will go away.

[quanumphaze]

To kill the fish someone else mentioned to kill the Gnome Panel.

Alt+F2 and type "killall gnome-panel" (without quotes)

DON'T PANIC
The panels should reload by themselves else Alt+F2 and type gnome-panel and all your work should be fine.

[megabyte1234]

Try in firefox (whatever os) to go to "about:robots" (without quotes)

Robots are your plastic pal who's fun to be with?
thats 42 related!):P:o

[YuiDaoren]

"Where did you dig up that old fossil?"
----Han Solo, referring to this thread. ):P

[whiskeylover]

"Where did you dig up that old fossil?"
----Han Solo, referring to this thread. ):P

I don't see the big deal. The thread is still just as relevant.

[bigseb]

Not really a linux easter egg but anyway...

In your browser type the word "illuminati" backwards and without quotes. Put www. before and .com after.

8)

[whiskeylover]

Not really a linux easter egg but anyway...

In your browser type the word "illuminati" backwards and without quotes. Put www. before and .com after.

8)

Looks like the webmaster merely 301'ed the default page to the NSA's website. No conspiracy here.

[bigseb]

Looks like the webmaster merely 301'ed the default page to the NSA's website. No conspiracy here.
Never said there was.... still puts a smile on my face though

[Sef]

Locked. Necromancing.