Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:20:07 -0400 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910290017030.7908@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <21901_1256787458_4AE90E02_21901_537_1_70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A08CCEED0@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> References: <21901_1256787458_4AE90E02_21901_537_1_70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A08CCEED0@WADPEXV0.waddell.com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:37, Ggatten@ wrote: > How but some ascii art that animates Beastie walking across the screen or something? A little creativity? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > To: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> > Cc: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wed Oct 28 22:14:09 2009 > Subject: Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03, jhell@ wrote: >> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. >>> The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. >>> >>> As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge >>> columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. >>> Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Bertram >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Nice output so far. I like seeing all these examples Polytropon's to be >> specific. >> >> Here is another one for you that is a little unique that you might not see on >> every computer out there. >> >> Integer Sequences database located here: >> fetch http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/stripped.gz >> >> Put some real previous work back to work!. ;) >> >> sed & awk that file to your liking to change commas spaces or such around so >> it can be spilled out to a terminal then toil the end result with the >> something like the following. >> >> # For bourne style shells. >> for line in `zcat stripped.gz`; do echo $line && sleep .09 ;done >> >> The above command on that file will show you the reason why some awk'ing >> might be needed but that's up to you. >> >> Best of luck. >> >> > > > For extra added effect make things a little bit larger. > xterm -fn 12x24 -geometry 80x30+0+0 -bw 0 -T "Your favorite title here." > > Load up logo_saver.ko on a VM, record the output with XVidCap on the hosting machine & play it back with mplayer -vo aa. ;) loop until happy. -- Thu Oct 29 00:17:03 2009 -0500 jhell
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