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Windows CE/ Solaris/ Linux

Windows CE

Solitaire

Requires: Windows CE
Hidden Game: 1. Open solitare.
2. Find the Ace of Hearts, or keep dealing untill you find it
3. Then drag it up where you put the aces
4. Press CTL ALT DELETE
5. Then drag the ace of hearts off the stand thing

 

Godzilla roar

Requires: Windows CE 1.0
Hidden Game: With all applications closed, type "godzilla". This seems to work only with Windows CE 1.0.

 

The perfect hand in solitaire

Requires:
Hidden Game: It’s frustrating trying to get a good hand in solitaire. With a little trick, you can make things much easier.

Using the software keyboard, tap Control, tap Shift, then tap the Deal button at the top, and you'll get a perfect hand of solitaire. Cards will be grouped with those of the same value, such as all threes together. Within a few minutes you should have the sorting done and the game finished!

Side Note: This is also a good way to judge the performance of your device -- look at how quickly it draws the cards to get an idea of how your device handles high-speed graphics.

 

Solaris/ Sun OS

Give peace a chance

Requires: View text of file
Hidden Game: The startup file /etc/init.d/yp contains the line

sleep 1 # we gave peace a chance, why not ypserve?

This reminded me of a better egg which may not be verrifiable any more, but I think it was in SunOS 4.0. That one was revealed if you typed the quite legitimate command

make love

The shell replied

not war.

 

You can tune a file system....

Requires: None
Hidden Game: In SunOS 4.1.1, I found that the man page for "tunefs" (a filesystem utility) contained this line under the BUGS heading:

"You can tune a file system, but you can't tuna fish."

Linux

Printer on Fire!

Requires: Linux 2.2.1
Easter Egg: 1. Using LINUX 2.2.1 (havent checked others), with bidirectional printer support
2. Print from the network and force a printer jam (tear a corner off a piece of paper and put back into th printer)
3. Issue a print command
4. Watch the output of the console (says lp0 printer on fire!)
5. Should have seen me RUN to the printer

 

Su gives funny comments

Requires: the sudo program
Easter Egg: if you have sudo installed (tested with CU Sudo version 1.5.9p1) AND you are in the /etc/sudoers file, try this:

sudo (command)

use whatever command you are allowed to run in the sudoers file. make sure it is NOT a NOPASSWD marked one.

sudo will print a few lines of text, then ask you for a password. enter some crap. it will spew out funny lines, different ones each time. some examples:

"That's something I cannot allow to happen."
"I've seen penguins that can type better than that."
"You do that again and see what happens..."

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