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Cool list of easter eggs in Mac OS X

eeggs.com — Very cool easter eggs, check out "Lord of the Rings" and "Terminal Games"

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  • otatop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35The games are an emacs easter egg, they aren't exclusive to OS X.
    • johnholmes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4But there are several other easter eggs on that page that are indeed exclusive to OS X.
    • t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43Mail easter egg - what icon where? I see "Hello from Cupertino, CA".
      Weather from nowhere - yep, an easter egg.
      LOTR dates - not really one - just the UNIX calendar, not an OS X one specifically.
      Mail.app developer - yeah, an easter egg, I guess.
      Slow Motion Genie - Hidden feature... but I'll count it.
      Dates of history - a UNIX feature. That's what the file is there for.
      Tetris - emacs feature - not OS X, or indeed an easter egg.
      Slow Motion Dashboard - same as above.
      Mud? - emacs feature AGAIN, not OS X or an easter egg.
      Terminal games - don't we love emacs?
      Ultimate Answer - Pcalc2? What is this? It's not part of OS X.
      I am the psychotherapist - emacs AGAIN!
      Inverse video - not an easter egg, a universal access feature. It's documented, and therefore not one.
      Jokes - feature, yet again. It's the way to test the speech recognition.
      Photographers at Apple - same as above (inverse video).
      Ports Manager - that's Hexley, how is this even an easter egg?
      Sosumi - how is THAT an easter egg?
      Kill Gates - that's the command shell, substituting something that's one letter different because it thinks it's a typo. Not an easter egg, it's intended.

      Score: 2 out of 18... try again.
    • wastern, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4bill gates --- didn't work when i tried it. That I'm glad for. I don't think the terminal should try and auto-corect typos...that could lead to very bad things
    • schroduggity, on 10/12/2007, -32/+2goddamn macfags twisting everything they think is cool into mac specific faggyness.
    • schroduggity, on 10/12/2007, -27/+0i'm just angry because we lost AB AGAIN! ***** horde, we were at 1500 resources. and they had 1000. I almost just deleted my account
    • Tricycles, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3http://duggmirror.com/apple/Cool_list_of_easter_eggs_in_Mac_OS_X/
    • rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11@schroduggity

      Sorry to hear that you suck at Warcraft. But seriously, if you don't have a Mac and don't like Macs then you have no business coming into the Apple forum to bitch and moan. Go piss on a Microsoft thread. There's one about Zune and Vista not being compatible, that'd be a good one to go vent in.

      @otatop

      It is an Easter egg in Emacs. Emacs comes with OSX. Therefore it _is_ in fact appropriate for a "list of Easter eggs in Mac OS X".

      For goodness sake, we _finally_ get an accurate heading and you bozos come and whinge about it!

      Go and buy yourselves a couple of cluesticks and beat yourselves with them will you please?
    • cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Emacs games aren't easter eggs, they're well documented features. It's right here in the Emacs tools menu, if you have the GUI version.
    • spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i wouldn't even count the slow motion feature.... i was really excited when i saw this, but all in all it was pretty disappointing.
  • jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -31/+5buried as lame

    OSX will never have any cool eggs
    • daven1986, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3windows isnt like that if you have any brain cells at all. just get a decent antivirus and use the windows firewall - no problems. you need to stop being a fan boy, and see the bigger picture. just because you cant use windows doesnt make it crap.
    • TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27"buried as lame

      OSX will never have any cool eggs"

      Hey have you seen that cool Windows easter eggs, it has a blue screen and you can access it by turning on your computer
    • ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1@TheReport: Funny, I haven't seen that screen since I know how to actually use a computer, unlike yourself who needs to rely on that carbon copy Mac that everyone else has. Note: when Mac users turn their computer on, instead of a blue screen it gives them a big ***** ego.
    • halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@ReXorcist

      I'm sorry, but your use of WebTV without incident does NOT mean you know how to use a computer.

      As for the BSOD, us old timers remember the bad old days of Windows NT and 98, when a BSOD was a pretty common thing, usually because of poor drivers.

      W2K post SP1 really reduced the BSOD, but I would guess that's a bit before your time ReXorcist, so you don't really have a frame of reference for why all the old fogies like myself joke about it.

      I still maintain that the reason Linux made a lot of it's early gains was because it was competing against NT, 98 and ME. If the stability of W2K was the norm for 98, Linux might never have taken off in the business sector.

      That said, those of us who had to deal with Blue Screens on a clean install of the OS with nothing loaded but the necessary hardware drivers and Office are entitled to raz Ms about Blue Screens.
    • ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2@halleyscomet: yeah webTV, that's what I use my A+ certification for...please I'm not some PC n00b but thanks for inferring that. And yes I've seen the BSOD back in the Win9x early NT days but not in a long time as TheReport referred to simply just turning on any windows based PC and getting it.
    • Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@rexorcist:

      But you're still an *****, and thats what counts here.
    • ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@Boondoggle: didn't say I wasn't >:D
    • TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"when Mac users turn their computer on, instead of a blue screen it gives them a big ***** ego."

      You've mistaken peace of mind for ego try to differentiate the two, also some how you've also mistaken my cordial attempt at humor but since you have to be the defender of all things Windows I'll let you have your day in the sun.
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Bury this as lame. Most of these are part of emacs or they're known system features except like 2.
    • wastern, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The only emacs related ones are the games. All else is OS X. The only "system feature" is the slow-mo effects which are undocumented and were used only to show off, they aren't exactly "features"
  • eponymous, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15First, the facts up front...

    1. I'm typing this comment from my new MacBook Pro, the first Mac I've owned.
    2. I love my Mac and have never been really happy with Windows.
    3. I used multiple Unix variants before I ever touched DOS or Windows.

    With my anti-Windows bias proudly on my sleeve I still say...

    This is lame. Buried as such.
    • rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7News at Ten: Post makes front page of Digg without being of Earth-shattering importance to all and sundry! Pundits panic! President declares state of emergency! Wailing and gnashing of teeth ensues!
    • halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@rickcarson

      I think you just won the thread.
  • thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3a lot of people obviously dugg this without reading the article. most of these easter eggs either 1) don't work 2) only worked on old versions of os x or 3) are really easter eggs for the program emacs
    • ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I will clarify since some of you are confused, I and the site both are assuming that most people with OS X know that it comes with emacs. It's really not that big of a deal. Also, on the site it tells you which eggs work with which type of OS X.
  • snier, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0http://www.duggmirror.com
  • SkaVanker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If you mean weak Easter eggs you are totally right!
  • techweenie1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2über lame
  • WankerWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here are a couple more calenar dates to grep in the Terminal:

    cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep "4004"

    cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep "1492"
  • Applemacmad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ok, I have owned a Mac for a year and...
    A. I already knew about most of these
    B. They're not really easter eggs

    Lame
  • AlexTheDeich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Aw, *****. its turning into another fanboy war... Why do windows people bother posting in the APPLE section?
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