This is the first post in a hopefully long running series about the FlippedWEB team’s adventures with technology, mostly dealing with linux and Open Source.
This isn’t exactly the most groundbreaking bit of hackery ever, but if you happen to be a linux user, it sure can be funny!
To get your computer to insult you with quotes such as “I’ve seen penguins that can type better than that.”, simply open up a terminal and run:
sudo visudo
This will authenticate you as root and open the /etc/sudoers with your favorite command line text editor.
Then add “insults” at the end of the defaults line so it looks like this and save it:
Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,insults
And there you have it! A computer that insults you when you can’t type a password; just what you need!
This may not be relevant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf
+1 at that Sridharaya networkmanager is nothing but headaches in 8.10
I usually remove it on intrepid installs right away and replace it with wicd.
sudo apt-get remove network-manager && sudo apt-get install wicd