Post by thread:Easter Eggs (OT)

<A PIC list member observed> >> One handy hint that has swung one legal case I know of.... Build in >> some hidden functionality to the product - some bizarre combination of >> buttons or whatever that performs no useful function and will not be >> found by accident. >> This provides a very easy way to prove that a rival product uses >> ripped-off code. <Tjaart van der Walt replied in part> >Very good idea. Something like the 'easter eggs' in Windows, or >some cell phones (like the Siemens). "Easter eggs" in Windoze? Can you tell me more? I'm just curious, it's the sort of trivia that facinates me. Cheers, Win Wiencke spam_OUTImageLogicTakeThisOuTibm.net

Hello to the PIC list. Try doing a search of the web using Yahoo using the phrase "easter eggs". The result should point you to several sites where lists of these things are maintained. I can recommend trying the one hidden in Excel 97 SR-1. Enjoy. {Original Message removed}

At 10:06 08/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >"Easter eggs" in Windoze? Can you tell me more? I'm just curious, it's the >sort of trivia that facinates me. These might have more info: http://www.eeggs.com/ http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Eggs/ Nigel -- Nigel Orr Research Associate O ______ Underwater Acoustics Group, o / o \_/( Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (_ < _ ( University of Newcastle Upon Tyne \______/ \(

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:06:04 -0500, you wrote: ><A PIC list member observed> > >>> One handy hint that has swung one legal case I know of.... Build in >>> some hidden functionality to the product - some bizarre combination of >>> buttons or whatever that performs no useful function and will not be >>> found by accident. >>> This provides a very easy way to prove that a rival product uses >>> ripped-off code. > > ><Tjaart van der Walt replied in part> >>Very good idea. Something like the 'easter eggs' in Windows, or >>some cell phones (like the Siemens). > >"Easter eggs" in Windoze? Can you tell me more? I'm just curious, it's the >sort of trivia that facinates me. > While we're on this subject... if you've got a HP 54645D - go into the print/util menu, press the 3rd and 4th softkeys together. When you get bored with this, press the 2nd and 3rd keys together.

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:06:04 -0500 Engineering Department <.....imagelogicKILLspam@spam@IBM.NET> writes: ><A PIC list member observed> > >>> One handy hint that has swung one legal case I know of.... Build in >>> some hidden functionality to the product - some bizarre combination >of >>> buttons or whatever that performs no useful function and will not >be >>> found by accident. >>> This provides a very easy way to prove that a rival product uses >>> ripped-off code. > Another clever method I've seen for tracing the origin of source code is to look at how the white space is generated. It is typically a combination of tabs and spaces, but it is unlikely that someone writing the code from scratch would end up with the same white space, even if the resulting code is "the only" or "the most efficient" way of performing some task. Harold Harold Hallikainen haroldKILLspamhallikainen.com Hallikainen & Friends, Inc. See the FCC Rules at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules and comments filed in LPFM proceeding at http://hallikainen.com/lpfm ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]