Completely Useless Tips and Tricks (Page 1 of 2)

Doesn't sl also have an animated easter egg?

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

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

Geek-style

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

From Germany --> Bad English

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

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)

cmatrix

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

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

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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.

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)

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)

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