Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:41:46PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> > Nasty. I've never heard of the easter egg causing that. Most likely some
> > other problem that just happened to crop up as the fish was swimming by.
>
> Simple explanations are usually correct (see .sig). If the system
> locked up right after that easter egg kicked in, it's most likely
> the easter egg's fault. Can you say "unforseen interactions between
> various parts of the system"?
Having read the code for said Easter egg, I'd say that if such a simple
thing causes your system to lock up then you have rather serious
problems anyway.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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