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
