Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / The Greatest Mathematical Error \ | | | The Mariner I space probe was launched | | from Cape Canaveral on 28 July 1962 | | towards Venus. After 13 minutes' flight | | a booster engine would give | | acceleration up to 25,820 mph; after 44 | | minutes 9,800 solar cells would unfold; | | after 80 days a computer would | | calculate the final course corrections | | and after 100 days the craft would | | cirlce the unknown planet, scanning the | | mysterious cloud in which it is bathed. | | | | However, with an efficiency that is | | truly heartening, Mariner I plunged | | into the Atlantic Ocean only four | | minutes after takeoff. | | | | Inquiries later revealed that a minus | | sign had been omitted from the | | instructions fed into the computer. "It | | was human error", a launch spokesman | | said. | | | | This minus sign cost L4,280,000. | | | | -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic | \ Failures" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;