Re: A little idea

[txa84@isuvax.iastate.edu (Robert S. Claney)]

In article <342fpb$r0o@disuns2.epfl.ch>, dinarich@disuns2.epfl.ch (Mirko Dinarich) writes:
>Why not make an init that intercepts the osshutdown call, shows a window in which
>we can read a fortune message and than performs a real shutdown ?

How about another init that shows a fortune in a window while the computer's
booting (Like Deep Thought on the Mac)?  I've thought about doing this one, but
never very much :)

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"There are three schools of magic.  One:  State a tautology, then ring the 
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to see a pattern.  Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science.  
Three:  Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy's 
Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering."