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Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:


$ fortune | cowsay

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/ ... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown     \
| Heights Research Center. When a         |
| programmer used his new computer        |
| terminal, all was fine when he was      |
| sitting down, but he couldn't log in to |
| the system when he was standing up.     |
| That behavior was 100 percent           |
| repeatable: he could always log in when |
| sitting and never when standing.        |
|                                         |
| Most of us just sit back and marvel at  |
| such a story; how could that terminal   |
| know whether the poor guy was sitting   |
| or standing? Good debuggers, though,    |
| know that there has to be a reason.     |
| Electrical theories are the easiest to  |
| hypothesize: was there a loose wire     |
| under the carpet, or problems with      |
| static electricity? But electrical      |
| problems are rarely consistently        |
| reproducible. An alert IBMer finally    |
| noticed that the problem was in the     |
| terminal's keyboard: the tops of two    |
| keys were switched. When the programmer |
| was seated he was a touch typist and    |
| the problem went unnoticed, but when he |
| stood he was led astray by hunting and  |
| pecking.                                |
|                                         |
| -- "Programming Pearls" column, by Jon  |
\ Bentley in CACM February 1985           /
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Here is the PHP code:
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;