just because it's Linux doesn't mean you can't laugh and have some fun!

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I promise to do my best to refrain from using fortune | cowsay to make my forum sig and any replies in threads (but take no responsibility for any other who may do such

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fortune | cowsay -d
 ________________________________________
/ Granted, Win95's look wasn't all that  \
| new either - Apple tried to sue        |
| Microsoft for copying the Macintosh UI |
| / trash can icon, until Microsoft      |
| pointed out that Apple got many of its |
| Mac ideas (including the trash can     |
| icon) from Xerox ParcPlace. Xerox is   |
| probably still wondering why everyone  |
| is interested in their trash cans.     |
|                                        |
\ -- Danny Thorpe, Borland Delphi R&R    /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (xx)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
             U  ||----w |
                ||     ||

and I got my cmatrix -s screensaver back! for all this and more...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/x-quirky- ... will-love/

[xenopeek]

Bring some color to your terminal. Pipe the output of cowsay through lolcat

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Bring some color to your terminal. Pipe the output of cowsay through lolcat

oooo, I like!
apt install lolcat and now want to see that effect on sl -la | lolcat but things are not working out as hoped, in that regard

[Prsman]

Impress your friends with hollywood from synaptic.

[smurphos]

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Impress your friends with hollywood from synaptic.

this is awesome
rockin the M.I.
(and added benefit byobu mod to terminal screen after Ctrl+c out of hollywood. handy info on bottom edge now, I like - thanks for mention it.
(ps wallstreet is pretty cool ticker/streamer I saw in mention of it on Ubuntu hollywood package page)

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pray tell?!
and does it come with a total kittens affected counter?
(sounds useful for maintaining xmas gift lists for Linuxing friends, who's been sudo naughty and no su nice

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Impress your friends with hollywood from synaptic.

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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

[Tomgin5]

No Kidding
Fired up my little netbook with LibreOffice in Peppermint 9

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tomk29@tomk29-Inspiron-910 ~ $ inxi -Fxzd
System:    Host: tomk29-Inspiron-910 Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic i686 bits: 32 gcc: 7.3.0 Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Nine
Machine:   Device: portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 910 v: A04 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Dell model: CN0J14 v: A04 serial: N/A BIOS: Dell v: A04 date: 12/29/2008
Battery    BAT1: charge: 35.5 Wh 100.0% condition: 35.5/35.5 Wh (100%) model: DELL status: N/A
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N270 (-MT-) arch: Bonnell rev.2 cache: 512 KB
           flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3192
           clock speeds: max: 1600 MHz 1: 1575 MHz 2: 1468 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@60.07hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 version: 1.4 Mesa 18.2.2 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-45-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 11.6GB (74.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: STEC_PATA_8GB size: 7.7GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Patriot_Memory size: 3.9GB
           Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.1G used: 5.2G (90%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.03GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 169 Uptime: 58 min Memory: 505.7/2002.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0

Notice it only has a 7.7GB ssd