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$ fortune | cowsay

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/ The Worst Musical Trio                  \
|                                         |
| There are few bad musicians who have a  |
| chance to give a recital at a famous    |
| concert hall while still learning the   |
| rudiments of their instrument. This     |
| happened about thirty years ago to the  |
| son of a Rumanian gentleman who was     |
| owed a personal favour by Georges       |
| Enesco, the celebrated violinist.       |
| Enesco agreed to give lessons to the    |
| son who was quite unhampered by great   |
| musical talent.                         |
|                                         |
| Three years later the boy's father      |
| insisted that he give a public concert. |
| "His aunt said that nobody plays the    |
| violin better than he does. A cousin    |
| heard him the other day and screamed    |
| with enthusiasm." Although Enesco       |
| feared the consequences, he arranged a  |
| recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.   |
| However, nobody bought a ticket since   |
| the soloist was unknown.                |
|                                         |
| "Then you must accompany him on the     |
| piano," said the boy's father, "and it  |
| will be a sell out."                    |
|                                         |
| Reluctantly, Enesco agreed and it was.  |
| On the night an excited audience        |
| gathered. Before the concert began      |
| Enesco became nervous and asked for     |
| someone to turn his pages.              |
|                                         |
| In the audience was Alfred Cortot, the  |
| brilliant pianist, who volunteered and  |
| made his way to the stage.              |
|                                         |
| The soloist was of uniformly low        |
| standard and next morning the music     |
| critic of Le Figaro wrote: "There was a |
| strange concert at the Salle Gaveau     |
| last night. The man whom we adore when  |
| he plays the violin played the piano.   |
| Another whom we adore when he plays the |
| piano turned the pages. But the man who |
| should have turned the pages played the |
| violin."                                |
|                                         |
| -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic    |
\ Failures"                               /
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;