Begin crispin@iinet.net.au quotation: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:38:09PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Suddenly wanda from the fish applet (but without the background) swam > > accross my Gnome desktop today. I use sawfish as WM. Do anybody know if > > there is a program that has implemented this as a "fun" things? It isn't > > so fun when you don't know what is doing it. > > > > Have anybody else experienced this? > > I experienced it twice and each time it scared the shit out of me. I went screaming for top, who, ps, w and when I found nothing reinstalled my system binaries from an old backup. > > Now I found I did all that in the name of 'fun'. > > You've probably all already read http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23777.html . If not give it a read. > > Everytime my computer does something I did not explicitly request it to do I am concerned. My computer is a tool that I use for serious work (much more so than fun work). Those strange disk accesses in Windows that never seem to subside worry me (I no longer use windows at all). This sort of thing should not be implemented in OSS software. Its one of the reasons that people leave proprietary stuff behind. If the gnome programmers want to have some fun, then write a game. The 'fun' they are having here is of the perverse kind when they think of the reaction users will give when wanda goes wandering (I can see them sniggering now) I do believe that the swimming fish comes courtesy of the wanda panel-applet, which (unlike bash) is surely not a tool for serious work. If you don't want this sort of humour, remove the fish from your applet. -- pgp public key at http://ocsc.ormond.unimelb.edu.au/~mstrauss/pgp_key.asc or send email with subject: request key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/E/MU d? s: a--- C++++ UL+++++$ P++ L++ E--- W+++ N+++ o+ K? w--- O- M-- V- PS+++ PE Y++ PGP+++ t- 5- X- R+++ !tv b++++ DI+++ D+(+++) G++++ e* h++ r+ y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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