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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by "Jonathan M. Hollin" <ne...@digital-word.com> on 2002/03/10 15:23:21 UTC
[OT] Thought for the Day
WAY OFF TOPIC!
When I used to login to the Unix server at university a
humourous/thought-provoking/silly message was displayed (Thought for the
Day?). Now that I have my Linux box up-and-running I'd like to see
these again both for nostalgia's sake and for my colleagues amusement.
Is this possible under Linux (RH 7.2). If so, how do I set it up?
Please reply off-list to netmaster [at] digital-word.com.
Thanks in advance and apologies for OT.
Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator
West Yorkshire Perl User Group
http://wypug.pm.org/
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by Martin Haase-Thomas <mh...@meome-ag.de>.
Should we tell the yellow press in the end?
;)
Martin
Carlos Ramirez wrote:
> I wrote an article about Apache::Motd for UNIX SysAdmin magazine
> (March 2001 issue). Here's the link:
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1153/sam0103a/
>
> -Carlos
>
>
> Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
>> John Eisenschmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Sinister, aren't I? <G>
>>>
>>> For the record I did email directly an explanation of what -o does
>>> and to exclude it for "clean" fortunes, and that it's more fun to
>>> make your own. I have quotes from all the Dogma movies that are
>>> called within my mod_perl index.html on my website. =)
>>>
>>> Suddenly this thread is on-topic.
>>>
>>
>> everyone might want to look at Apache::MOTD - it's a similar idea to
>> the Unix motd functionality whose implementation is quite clever.
>>
>> --Geoff
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by Carlos Ramirez <cr...@gte.net>.
I wrote an article about Apache::Motd for UNIX SysAdmin magazine (March
2001 issue). Here's the link:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1153/sam0103a/
-Carlos
Geoffrey Young wrote:
> John Eisenschmidt wrote:
>
>>Sinister, aren't I? <G>
>>
>>For the record I did email directly an explanation of what -o does and to exclude it for "clean" fortunes, and that it's more fun to make your own. I have quotes from all the Dogma movies that are called within my mod_perl index.html on my website. =)
>>
>>Suddenly this thread is on-topic.
>>
>
> everyone might want to look at Apache::MOTD - it's a similar idea to
> the Unix motd functionality whose implementation is quite clever.
>
> --Geoff
>
>
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>.
John Eisenschmidt wrote:
>
> Sinister, aren't I? <G>
>
> For the record I did email directly an explanation of what -o does and to exclude it for "clean" fortunes, and that it's more fun to make your own. I have quotes from all the Dogma movies that are called within my mod_perl index.html on my website. =)
>
> Suddenly this thread is on-topic.
everyone might want to look at Apache::MOTD - it's a similar idea to
the Unix motd functionality whose implementation is quite clever.
--Geoff
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by Ryan Parr <ry...@cableone.net>.
I have the exact same thing set up for my website. Just without the dogma of
course :)
I'm thinking that I'll have to collect plenty of Deep Thoughts, to change
the general tone of my site.
-- Ryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Eisenschmidt" <jw...@eisenschmidt.org>
To: "Ryan Parr" <ry...@cableone.net>
Cc: <mo...@perl.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by John Eisenschmidt <jw...@eisenschmidt.org>.
Sinister, aren't I? <G>
For the record I did email directly an explanation of what -o does and to exclude it for "clean" fortunes, and that it's more fun to make your own. I have quotes from all the Dogma movies that are called within my mod_perl index.html on my website. =)
Suddenly this thread is on-topic.
my $foo = qx(/usr/games/fortune fooguy);
### replace newlines in fortunes with <br>'s
$foo =~ s/\n/<br>/g;
print qq(<font face="$font" size="2">$foo</font><br><br>);
Unless the Voices are Mistaken, Ryan Parr (ryanparr@cableone.net) Wrote:
> John mentions /usr/games/fortune -o, which will print offensive messages.
> They are quite funny though. To use it without offensive messages (just
> funny ones) just don't pass it options.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Eisenschmidt" <jw...@eisenschmidt.org>
> To: <mo...@perl.apache.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
>
>
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Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by Ryan Parr <ry...@cableone.net>.
John mentions /usr/games/fortune -o, which will print offensive messages.
They are quite funny though. To use it without offensive messages (just
funny ones) just don't pass it options.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Eisenschmidt" <jw...@eisenschmidt.org>
To: <mo...@perl.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by John Eisenschmidt <jw...@eisenschmidt.org>.
/usr/games/fortune -o
Unless the Voices are Mistaken, dreamwvr (dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com) Wrote:
> fortune ?
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Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Posted by dreamwvr <dr...@dreamwvr.com>.
fortune ?