Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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