Re: Wanda the fish
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Kalle Hasselström wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:32:50AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
| > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:01:13PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
| > > Quoth Kurt Dresner,
| > > > Wanda the fish just randomly swam across my screen.
| > > >
| > > > What the heck is going on with my computer?
| > >
| > > Presumably you're running GNOME. I remember reading somewhere that it's
| > > one of the (many?) GNOME easter eggs.
| > >
| > > I don't really know anything more about it, but I believe it's harmless.
| >
| > Yep. I had a look at the code (in the GNOME panel) once when it had just
| > happened to me, and I think it's expected to happen once a month or so.
| > You'll find the graphics for it in /usr/share/pixmaps/fish/fishanim.png.
| >
|
| Hmmmm. Having open source kind of takes the mystery out of this sort
| of thing ... :-(
It could, but notice that he didn't read the source until after he saw
the egg :-). The egg was still a surprise. Besides, there are enough
ways to write obfuscated code that even having the source is not much
help ;-).
-D
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