As many of you may know, the Slackware (notice the Slack) distribution of
the Linux operating system has a screen saver which flashes random
pictures of Bob on your screen. Kudos to Peter J. Volkerding who
developed this WONDERFUL operating system! It should be law that all
those who wish to follow Bob and subsequently, Ford, use Linux. It is
availble via FTP at 'ftp.cdrom.com' /pub/linux/slackware
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LINUX: Operating system for PCs. Clone of Unix- popular among hackers (I do
not mean this in the more common derogatory sense of the word) -
free distribution.
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Subject: Re: BOB sighted on Linux OS
From: frampton@access1.digex.net (adam frampton)
>As many of you may know, the Slackware (notice the Slack) distribution of
>the Linux operating system has a screen saver which flashes random
>pictures of Bob on your screen. Kudos to Peter J. Volkerding who
That's Xwindows, by the way, NOT Slackware.
>developed this WONDERFUL operating system! It should be law that all
He DIDN'T write the operating system. Linus Twaords (sp) did. Volkerding
got teh source code and packaged it, hardly writing the kernel code
there. :)
>those who wish to follow Bob and subsequently, Ford, use Linux. It is
>availble via FTP at 'ftp.cdrom.com' /pub/linux/slackware
or better yet, try sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux. There are also 5 or so
newsgroups for linux (comp.os.linux) which receive a disguisting amount
of bandwidth.
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Revelation of "Bob" in XLock (Linux)
From: alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com (Alec Muffett)
Date: 22 Nov 1994
Well, here's a novelty:
Here I sit in front of my Linux box, happily hacking away, and decide
to pull down the screensaver on my menu, which is wired to:
xlock -nolock -mode random
- it starts off with "worms" - which I don't like, so I kill *that*
and restart it.
"xlock" then comes up in "image" mode - but it ain't any image I've
seen it produce before. In fact, instead of flashing the familiar
little Sun "diamond" logos around the screen, it's actually flashing a
5x3 array of images of a pipe-smoking "Bob".
It must be a time-locked easter egg feature. I can't find a command
switch in the binary, nor anything that seems suspicious in the X
resources. and the only thing that it does which seems remotely
suspicious is a call to time() - even that is stretching things a bit,
but it could be behind a localtime().
No symbol table (stripped).
The Xlock binary is old, statically linked, from Slackware 1.1 or
something. Is this a well known easter egg ?
Any way to reproduce the egg from the command line ?
Alec Muffett (A Goret is for life, not just for Christmas)
Sun Microsystems UK (define-key global-map "\C-m" `save-buffers-kill-emacs)
Network Security Group
(speaking for himself, not his employers)
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Subject: Re: Revelation of "Bob" in XLock (Linux)
From: mike_trogni@il.us.swissbank.com
Stang, People are posting that LINUX ( a freely distributable version of
UNIX with the source code so you can change it without paying money to evil
UNIX companies which runs on 486's ) has slack because it was distributed by
a possibly latent subgenius as SLACKWARE 2.0
FYI : I saw some Foundation audio cassettes that looked bootlegged at the
London Rough Trade shop with a UK return address... hopefully these cassettes
are Dobbs-approved ...
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Subject: "Bob" sighted on Linux OS
From: cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk (Cyber Surfer)
alpropes@rodan.syr.edu "Aaron L. Propes" writes:
> Anyone know of any such screen savers for Macs?
I tried writing a "Bob" screen saver for Windows, but the damn thing
refused to link. Either I'm doing something wrong, or...
I spent a few happy mins the other day creating a "Bob" address label,
for anyone who wants to mail me. It's available via Cix (see the URL
in my home page), but I can't update my home page at the moment, so
it's not available via Internet. I'll have to prepare a special one
for International use, by putting in an extra line with "ENGLAND" on
it. I may have to enlarge "Bob"'s head if I do that...
Cybes
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Subject: Re: "BOB" sighted on Linux OS
From: ncosgrave@oisin.demon.co.uk (Noel Cosgrave)
"Bob's" head is as large or small as you want it to be.
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