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In light of the fact tomorrow's Easter Sunday (which is in 15 mins away), I thought I'd post this.
I was just mucking around in my local portage tree, and ...
- 04-15-2006 #1Linux Enthusiast
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Tasty little amusement apps
In light of the fact tomorrow's Easter Sunday (which is in 15 mins away), I thought I'd post this.
I was just mucking around in my local portage tree, and I came across some interesting apps. The first was called "fortune". Some people would have heard of this app b4. It is a program that prints quotes based on the commandline options.
For example: "fortune -a" means print out a random quote from the installed database, including offensive ones. I got a laugh out of the output, I tell you
. It's also great when you setup xscreensaver to use the fortune quotes.
The second app was called "wtf". It is an acronym finder (kind of). For example, if I put in "wtf imho", it will output 'imho: In My Humble Opinion'. Great for geek-speak noob's like me.
Do any other good ones exist that you know of?
~the_weedman"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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- 04-15-2006 #2Trusted Penguin
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Do games count? I installed SuperTux last night with CruxPorts4Slack and it is very addictive and amusing! My five year old daughter really enjoys watching as I play.
- 04-16-2006 #3Linux Enthusiast
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Ok, games count.
Isn't Supertux the mario brothers-based game with tux? If it is, I play it myself ocassionally. It's a great time waster
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~the_weedman"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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- 04-16-2006 #4Linux Engineer
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Late last year I had fun with x-snow and x-desktop-waves.
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- 04-17-2006 #6Linux User
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I'll have to try these the moment portage is finished syncing. Moving the portage tree takes too long.
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I had such a lot of fun with x-snow last year - which is rather sad
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- 04-18-2006 #8Linux Guru
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He he ... I really struggled to think of a Linux 'toy' which I find amusing. I quite like fortune (my version has things like 'Goodbye and thanks for all the fish' included with it now). I sometimes use Xeyes, but I really want a 'desktop friend' app which doesn't annoy me. The Windows one I used was a bouncy sheep which - amongst other things - would get abducted by aliens, pee and chase a little friend around the screen ...
I badly want a *nix alternative! I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
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Sounds quite amusing, I like the jingle/tune you picked- big Hitchhiker's fan myself. Originally Posted by fingal
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