[plug] Um, weird

[Gavin Corfield]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 23:49, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> G'Day,
>     This is probably a fairly trivial thing, but a fish just swam across 
> my screen. Ok, you can stop laughing now. Its never done anything like 
> it before and it didn't seem to have any ill-effects. I've just 
> installed some new themes for Gnome from the Ximian desktop, but I 
> didn't think I'd set anything extra to run. If anyone knows what the 
> program is that makes a single fish appear on your desktop, could you 
> let me know so I can identify and kill it!

This came up on the debian security list a couple of months ago
apparently it's a little extra in gnome.  The program checks the epoc
time every time you start up or something and then if it satisfies some
criteria send the fish off.  There's more detail on the deb-security
archive.

gavin