Finding Easter Eggs…
Yesterday afternoon I was really bored at work and had eventually navigated to a website dedicated to Easter Eggs that could be found on an operating system, software application and more. Naturally I went to the list of operating systems and started looking up the operating systems which were accessible to me. As I read through the Linux and UNIX related ones, I had already known some but there were a few that I was interested in trying.
Seeing how I was on an OpenSolaris laptop I decided to first look through the SunOS list. Unfortunately none of them seemed to work. It would appear that they were taken out. But I did remember one from many years ago that a friend (Marian Lakov) had shown me. Originally found on an installation of RHEL, it was in the man page for the xorg.conf file.
Listed under the VIDEOADAPTER SECTION you will read the following: Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows…
If you know of any hidden secret(s) that is not listed on the site posted earlier, please feel free to share.
What about all the random rude messages that sudo will throw at you if you get the password wrong? Type
strings $(which sudo) | less
and search down until you get to things like
Wrong! You cheating scum!
No soap, honkie-lips.
Where did you learn to type?
Are you on drugs?
You type like I drive.
Do you think like you type?
stty: unknown mode: doofus
Comment by Lawrence D'Oliveiro — 19. September 2009 @ 02:35
I find the aalib readme to be quite hilarous (you can read it here: http://mirror.cict.fr/x.org/contrib/libraries/aalib.README).
Comment by Dennis Murczak — 19. September 2009 @ 10:49
@Lawrence
es the sudo command insults you if you get the password wrong if it is invoked or compiled with the right options. Sadly it has been disabled in most distributions but you should be able to invoke it again with a command line option.
Comment by Dan Dart — 20. September 2009 @ 03:31