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  1. discoteq : (simple tricks and nonsense) A collection of mostly teeny little shell applications that can turn any workspace into a party hall. (and help show off the power of UNIX like OSes) Note: These are currently very Red Hat specific. I'll be fixing that.


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  1. discoteq
  2. (simple tricks and nonsense) A collection of mostly teeny little shell applications that can turn any workspace into a party hall. (and help show off the power of UNIX like OSes) Note: These are currently very Red Hat specific. I'll be fixing that.

    The Source:

    discoteq/dist/latest.tar.gz

    Description:

    Why Gulfie loves Unix (TM)

    Because you can turn any workspace into a discotheque. And I have.

    Pure happy. If you are prone to seizures... please go no further.

    Matthew Russell, did about the same thing in javascript. It's great, and seriously, if you'r prone to seizures, don't go any further... especialy not to the example.

    I urge you to look at the scripts. They are simple, teeny, kinda wasteful but the return on the investment in time and effort was well worth it. If anyone ever tells you that something can't be done it one line of shell... you'll know they need to learn a few things.

    Command Effect
    simple_strobe Flashes your X back ground color black and white as fast as siliconicly possible.
    simple_strobe.2 Give it a numeric argument, it will flash white then wait for that long then flash again. 'that long' isn't really a precise length of time. For added fun, run a few of them in the background with different numeric arguments.
    pseudorandom Flashes your X back ground color to any color of the rainbow (or the rgb.txt) as fast as siliconicly possible.
    pseudorandom.2 Give it a numeric argument, it will flash your X back ground color to any color of the rainbow (or the rgb.txt) just as simple_strobe.2 does
    pseudorandom.3 Almost exactly the same thing as pseudorandom.2

    An entire lab full of machines flashing there displays... it's awe inspireing... and yet horrifying at the same time.

    Debugging tips

    1. Make sure you are running on a recent Red Hat release. Yes I need to fix this.
    2. Make sure you don't have a nice background image that blocks the background color.

    Installing:

    Download the tarball, untarball it.

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