Getting rid of the bore through the terminal

Quite boring and nothing else to do? For help may come a time-tested terminal. It is possible that you may not like this style of humor, but in general given below tips can spare a little time for boredom, as well as allow to make fun of the other.

1. Watch Star Wars in ASCII

Yes, you really can see the fourth episode of the Star Wars directly in the terminal, however, in the ASCII-art format, but still. Writing in the terminal as follows:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Leans back in his chair and enjoy.

2. Play Tetris, Snake and other vintage toys

Emacs text editor contains a hidden collection of games, including masterpieces like Snake, Tetris, Pong, Solitaire and more. Here's how to access them:

• write in «emacs» command line, and then press «Function + F10», then «t», then «g»
• choose from the list of desired igrkom with the arrow keys or the first letter of the name of the game

The main thing - do not get carried away too much.

3. Disbosom virtual therapist

If you do not know what Eliza, it's time to learn it now. Get access to this funny robot companion can be through the terminal:

• run Emacs
• simultaneously press «Esc» with the title «X»
• write «doctor» and press the «Return»

Sometimes the program is surprising for its apparent humanity.

4. Read the incredible nonsense from Horse Ebooks

This account has become popular in the English-language Twitter thanks to the flow of disconnected delusions that many rated as funny. If you install more and application to convert text to voice, you can immerse yourself in the atmosphere of this nonsense, or to play each other. Write in a terminal:

curl -s horseebooksipsum.com/api/v1/ | say

5. Stress test for your Mac

«Yes» The team is quite high CPU use for long periods of time. You can display any of the words and phrases, simply write in the terminal command «yes» and then the text in quotation marks:

yes "tut_vash_tekst"

Complete command execution by pressing «Control + C», or kill with the help of «killall yes».

[via osxdaily]