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) The moral? I no longer use gnome. This is just a surface shimmering concealing the big steaming smelly piles of code that lies below. Want an example of hideous gnome code? Take a look at the Corba implementation! From one monumental design flaw to another. I mean tying the IOR to the X-Server root window! What drugs were they smoking? Tried to set up Corba in a networked environment over TCP? Then nmap'ed your machine? This was the final straw for me. After seeing hundreds of ports bound and listening, firewall full of holes, I stopped using Gnome for good. Sure I use GTK apps and GTK itself in my code, but the Gnu Network Object Model Environment? Forget it. Imagine if every rand(1000) lines of bash it printed out "boo" or faked "rm -rf /*" without deleting anything, just to give you a surprise? Would you find that fun? Bash is a tool. It performs wonderfully. I use it all day long. I should be able to look apon gnome in the same way, but alas I cant. I could go on all day with examples, but I'll end my rant here. Wanda freaked me out, made me perform unneccessary, worrying work, and apon finding its an Easter Egg, has made me quite angry. Ever wonder why Linus himself uses KDE? Kind Regards Crispin Wellington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
