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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>
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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.


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  Thu Oct 29 00:17:03 2009 -0500

  jhell



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