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Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by gglitch » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

folli wrote: post #7

Jerry2 wrote: post #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,…

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?

Good idea. This would occasionally be a valuable function to include in a password manager.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by vram22 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 2:51 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

For those of a certain age, piping figlet into your local line printer was a fun, if noisy, way to make giant banners.

I've seen a 'banner' command in some Unix versions. Often used to print the motd (message of the day) that you got when you logged in, and also by sysadmins to write a banner message to everyone's terminal like "System going down in 10 minutes" etc.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by vram22 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 2:55 PM UTC

maephisto wrote: post #29

A couple of days ago I created “jazzup” a fun cli utility that adds a soundtrack and movie quotes to your long running boring commands. Check it out on npm : https://www.npmjs.com/package/jazzup

Speaking of sound and CLI, I created this musical command-line alarm clock recently (in Python):

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/jal-tarang-and-musical-al...

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by omaranto » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

bigkm wrote: post #40

It's a shame the author polarizes having fun and learning. I've always thought of them as the same.

The same? That's pretty odd. You've never had fun without learning something at the same time, nor learned something without having fun.

For me only one of those things is true: I think I always have fun learning, but I certainly have had fun without learning anything, too.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by mfukar » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:01 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #32

mfukar wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's fun spawning a new process and watching the otherwise idle cores of your box reach 0.1% usage for a millisecond.

Don't all three of those commands spawn new processes?

Not _shell_ processes, no.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by kasperset » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:05 PM UTC

Unix terminal can be endless fun with piping and process substitution. One of the reasons people like GUI is because recognition memory is usually better than recall memory.

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by Karunamon » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

folli wrote: post #7

Jerry2 wrote: post #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,…

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?

Fakenamegenerator[1] will generate disposable email addresses based on the identity it cooked up. No https without paying, though...

[1]: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by Cbeck527 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 3:21 PM UTC

Shameless plug for a CLI *say derivitive that a coworker and I made: RabbitSay. http://www.rabbitsay.wtf

  $ pip install rabbitsay
  $ rabbitsay "shameless plug"
  ┌───────────┐
  | shameless |
  |   plug    |
  └───────────┘
  (\__/) ||
  (•ㅅ•) ||
  / 　 づ

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by betenoire » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 4:53 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #15

For fancy text Toilet is great too. It's like Figlet but supports colours, filters, and comes with more fonts. https://i.stack.imgur.com/LbsmC.png

Where does the pink term border come from?

Re: Fun at the Unix Terminal

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Post by gricardo99 » Fri, Apr 07, 2017, 12:54 AM UTC

Jerry2 wrote: post #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,…

where can you actually find the code? For whatever reason, I can't get it from my centos distro (yum search rig, doesn't show anything related). And googling "linux rig command", I don't see any links to the actual source.