Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / One of the questions that comes up all \ | the time is: How enthusiastic is our | | support for UNIX? | | | | Unix was written on our machines and | | for our machines many years ago. Today, | | much of UNIX being done is done on our | | machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are | | going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple | | language, easy to understand, easy to | | get started with. It's great for | | students, great for somewhat casual | | users, and it's great for interchanging | | programs between different machines. | | And so, because of its popularity in | | these markets, we support it. We have | | good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on | | PDP-11s. | | | | It is our belief, however, that serious | | professional users will run out of | | things they can do with UNIX. They'll | | want a real system and will end up | | doing VMS when they get to be serious | | about programming. | | | | With UNIX, if you're looking for | | something, you can easily and quickly | | check that small manual and find out | | that it's not there. With VMS, no | | matter what you look for -- it's | | literally a five-foot shelf of | | documentation -- if you look long | | enough it's there. That's the | | difference -- the beauty of UNIX is | | it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is | | that it's all there. | | | | -- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, | | DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984 [It's been | | argued that the beauty of UNIX is the | | same as the beauty of Ken Olsen's | \ brain. Ed.] / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;