{"id":88,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=88"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"graphical-bootup-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Graphical bootup fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re probably already familiar with the bash fortune function. It&#8217;s also easy to make fortunes pop up in graphical alert boxes. Just type this into Terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>alert \"`fortune`\"<\/pre>\n<p> Like it? Add it to your UserBootScript and you&#8217;ll get a fortune window every time you boot your BeOS system.<br \/>\n For more on using the alert function, see the tip <a HREF=\"\/chunga.php?ID=079\">Alert Boxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re probably already familiar with the bash fortune function. It&#8217;s also easy to make fortunes pop up in graphical alert boxes. Just type this into Terminal: alert &#8222;`fortune`&#8220; Like it? Add it to your UserBootScript and you&#8217;ll get a fortune window every time you boot your BeOS system. For more on using the alert function, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}