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hardran3

#! Junkie

From: forest town, lake land

Registered: 2011-02-26

Posts: 359

Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

sudo apt-get install sl

Have fun. It will remind you if you mistype ls.

Do you have any useless tips?

Last edited by hardran3 (2011-05-01 06:21:31)

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crunchy

#! Junkie

From: Juneau, AK, USA

Registered: 2010-08-19

Posts: 461

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 9,033

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Doesn't sl also have an animated easter egg?

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GuruX

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 527

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Terminal screensaver? Anyone?

db_crunch

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From: Your Hard-Disk

Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 68

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Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

speaking of easter eggs have you seen these two?

apt-get moo | cowsay -n

followed with

aptitude -v moo
aptitude -v -v moo
aptitude -v -v -v moo
etc, etc.. Once you reach 6 -v thats the end

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hardran3

#! Junkie

From: forest town, lake land

Registered: 2011-02-26

Posts: 359

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

GRUB2: set Super Mario as startup tune

echo "GRUB_INIT_TUNE=\"1000 334 1 334 1 0 1 334 1 0 1 261 1 334 1 0 1 392 2 0 4 196 2\"" | sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub > /dev/null && sudo update-grub

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paulsenior

#! CrunchBanger

From: Muenster, Germany

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 100

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Terminal screensaver? Anyone?

watch -d -n0,1 more /dev/urandom

Geek-style

Last edited by paulsenior (2011-05-03 08:42:48)

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d2ogch3n

#! CrunchBanger

From: here

Registered: 2010-01-15

Posts: 201

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Ascii art Star Wars

sudo apt-get install telnet && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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saneks

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 738

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

i like ascii-portal better, but that's  not a useless hint

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hardran3

#! Junkie

From: forest town, lake land

Registered: 2011-02-26

Posts: 359

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

telnet telehack.com

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hardran3

#! Junkie

From: forest town, lake land

Registered: 2011-02-26

Posts: 359

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

psDoom is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands.

Last edited by hardran3 (2011-06-02 22:13:44)

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benj1

Wiki Wizard

From: Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 1,084

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

psDoom is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands.

Is the final boss the Linux kernel process ?

also this would be an interesting concept for malware.

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tartan

#! Junkie

From: Moscow

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 314

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Terminal screensaver? Anyone?

cmatrix

As for the first post, zsh politely proposes to correct a command if I mistype it. %)

merelyjim

#! Die Hard

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 2,296

Website

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

sudo apt-get install sl

Have fun. It will remind you if you mistype ls.

Do you have any useless tips?

I just installed and ran it.
Useless, but funny!
Thanks for making the day easier.

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muzieca

#! Die Hard

From: /home

Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 1,150

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Umm, terminal ascii aquarium, perhaps?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-uni … arium.html

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rizzo

#! wanderer

From: ~/

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,109

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

followed with

aptitude -v moo
aptitude -v -v moo
aptitude -v -v -v moo
etc, etc.. Once you reach 6 -v thats the end

hehe, that gave me giggle

Awebb

The Singularity

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 2,812

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

:(){ :|: & };:

This will hang up and crash pretty much any Linux desktop that didn't undergo certain hardening. There actually is a real use for it. I use it to check the recoverability of a crashed system.

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Kuno

#! Die Hard

From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 610

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

:(){ :|: & };:

This will hang up and crash pretty much any Linux desktop that didn't undergo certain hardening. There actually is a real use for it. I use it to check the recoverability of a crashed system.

This works fine! At first terminal showed something like 7426... then it froze.

hhh

Caught in the Vortex

From: Port Salerno

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 1,488

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Oldies but goodies...

about:mozilla in the Iceweasel/Firefox adressbar, and especially may favorite, about:robots (make sure to look at the tab text in that one).

ddate in terminal

Last edited by hhh (2011-06-09 14:58:24)

anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 8,904

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1134.html

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AlanD

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 116

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Be careful with this file. Using visudo will probably prevent you from saving any errors. In crunchbang it actually uses the nano editor.

sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers

at the end of the line Defaults, put

,passprompt="First type your password, jerk. "

Notice the comma in there. You need to have that separating this from the other items.

Now open a new terminal and try some action that needs your password.

You can also set badpass_message the same way.

Last edited by AlanD (2011-06-19 03:50:06)

dmhdlr

#! Junkie

From: Philadelphia

Registered: 2011-05-09

Posts: 312

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

vrms
figlet

for checking for non-free packages and for writing in big ASCII letters.

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pablokal

#! CrunchBanger

From: Nijmegen, Holland

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 232

Website

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

#shutdown -h +0
And start reading a good book.

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AlanD

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 116

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

I like this:

pv < /dev/zero > /dev/null

It copies zeros from /dev/zero to /dev/null and pv reports on the progress with amount finished, rate, and a ascii completion bar.

Anarchy-life

#! CrunchBanger

From: California- Sacramento

Registered: 2012-01-24

Posts: 116

Re: Completely Useless Tips and Tricks

Umm, terminal ascii aquarium, perhaps?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-uni … arium.html

So SIck !!

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