Jürgen Taverniers^2.0

If you find yourself on a linux system try out one of these, inside the terminal for a little bit of fun. It appears that most of them also work on OSX.

Watch Start Wars

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Greate custom ascii art:

banner

See how long your machines been runing

uptime

for the next few you need to install cowsay

sudo apt-get install cowsay

see your fortune

fortune

let a cow say your personal message

cowsay 'msg'

cowsay your amarok lyrics

dcop amarok player lyrics | cowsay

show laptop temp and batterie state

acpi -t

source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2540421&postcount=1

When you’re a cooked in Windows user it can be very hard to make the plunge to Linux, or even to install it on your desktop can be a big step. But now in the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron there’s a cool feature to install a version of Ubuntu on your desktop like a normal every day using Windows program that you can just as easily remove as install.

The installation disk

First of all you need a Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation disk, and because Ubuntu is open source which means it’s frEE like in bEEr you can get it just like that. All you have to do is download the iso (or the Dutch version), burn it with your favourite burning tool to a disk and voila. If even that’s too much work to do you can request a free cd and the Ubuntu community will send to you one.

The installing itself

You just insert the Ubuntu cd into your cd drive while windows is running (just like any other program you install). If your disk drive auto run is on there will be a popup else you just click the cd you just entered. For the windows installation mode you select the install inside windows mode. You can

select several options like drive, installation size, language, username and password. After installation you reboot the system and get a boot menu asking you which operation system you want to boot. If you for some reason don’t like it you can easily remove it through the Windows program list, just like any Windows program.

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