Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / On the other hand, the TCP camp also \ | has a phrase for OSI people. There are | | lots of phrases. My favorite is | | `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the | | Internet philosophy has always been you | | have extremely bright, non-partisan | | researchers look at a topic, do | | world-class research, do several | | competing implementations, have a | | bake-off, determine what works best, | | write it down and make that the | | standard. | | | | The OSI view is entirely opposite. You | | take written contributions from a much | | larger community, you put the | | contributions in a room of committee | | people with, quite honestly, vast | | political differences and all with | | their own political axes to grind, and | | four years later you get something out, | | usually without it ever having been | | implemented once. | | | | So the Internet perspective is | | implement it, make it work well, then | | write it down, whereas the OSI | | perspective is to agree on it, write it | | down, circulate it a lot and now we'll | | see if anyone can implement it after | | it's an international standard and | | every vendor in the world is committed | | to it. One of those processes is | | backwards, and I don't think it takes a | | Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford | | to figure out which. | | | | -- Marshall Rose, "The Pied Piper of | \ OSI" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;