Fun at the Unix Terminal
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Fun at the Unix Terminal
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#2For those of a certain age, piping figlet into your local line printer was a fun, if noisy, way to make giant banners.
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#3sl [0] is always my favorite.
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#4>Well, the rig utility can help, it creates a random identity. For some reason rig will never generate an identity that lives in Utah.
Heh, I was curious why that is. Was the author from UT? Afraid of breaking some laws? After looking at the source, the author has a list of 60 or so cities and they're spread across 25 states: SC, AZ, TX, OH, KS, IA, WI, MI, NJ, NY, PA, IN, VA, NC, RI, TN, WA, MS, CA, IL, CO, FL, GA, MN, NE. So UT was not the only one omitted.
Oh well, at least my curiosity was satisfied.
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#5For those of a certain age, piping figlet into your local line printer was a fun, if noisy, way to make giant banners.
ERROR: lp0 on fire
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#6aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font.
Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.
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#7> Well, the rig utility can help, it creates a random identity. For some reason rig will never generate an identity that lives in Utah. Heh, I was curious why that is. Was the author from UT? Afraid of breaking some laws? After looking at the source, the author has a list of 60 or so cities and they're spread across 25 states: SC, AZ, TX, OH, KS, IA, WI, MI, NJ, NY, PA, IN, VA, NC, RI, TN, WA, MS, CA, IL, CO, FL, GA,…
Is there something similar which also creates email adresses and stores the generated profiles in a database in order to retrieve them again later? May be even have the ability to store associated passwords?
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#8On Ubuntu, say isn't available by default, but I think `espeak` is, and it works mostly the same. At least, it's always been there on my Ubuntu systems, but I may have installed it manually and then forgot about it :)
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#9Me having fun with true color and Unicode 9.0 characters:
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#10aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font. Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.
With friends using VLC on their linux box and unaware of the beauty of libaa/libcaca, I'd type:
vlc --vout caca videofilename.ext