Graphical bootup fortune
Posted on September 9th, 1997 by shacker
You’re probably already familiar with the bash fortune function. It’s also easy to make fortunes pop up in graphical alert boxes. Just type this into Terminal:
alert "`fortune`"
Like it? Add it to your UserBootScript and you’ll get a fortune window every time you boot your BeOS system.
For more on using the alert function, see the tip Alert Boxes.