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Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:


$ fortune | cowsay

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/ If you ever want to have a lot of fun,  \
| I recommend that you go off and program |
| an imbedded system. The salient         |
| characteristic of an imbedded system is |
| that it cannot be allowed to get into a |
| state from which only direct            |
| intervention will suffice to remove it. |
| An imbedded system can't permanently    |
| trust anything it hears from the        |
| outside world. It must sniff around,    |
| adapt, consider, sniff around, and      |
| adapt again. I'm not talking about      |
| ordinary modular programming            |
| carefulness here. No. Programming an    |
| imbedded system calls for undiluted     |
| raging maniacal paranoia. For example,  |
| our ethernet front ends need to know    |
| what network number they are on so that |
| they can address and route PUPs         |
| properly. How do you find out what your |
| network number is? Easy, you ask a      |
| gateway. Gateways are required by       |
| definition to know their correct        |
| network numbers. Once you've got your   |
| network number, you start using it and  |
| before you can blink you've got it      |
| wired into fifteen different sockets    |
| spread all over creation. Now what      |
| happens when the panic-stricken         |
| operator realizes he was running the    |
| wrong version of the gateway which was  |
| giving out the wrong network number?    |
| Never supposed to happen. Tough.        |
| Supposing that your software discovers  |
| that the gateway is now giving out a    |
| different network number than before,   |
| what's it supposed to do about it? This |
| is not discussed in the protocol        |
| document. Never supposed to happen.     |
\ Tough. I think you get my drift.        /
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Here is the PHP code:
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;