Re: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)
Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:25, George Vieira wrote: I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to fool the Boss. You could do that, but the screenshots at http://qvwm.org are scarily MS-like. Or it could be a good source of icons for your own project.. Anybody care to help me modify the icons etc.. eg. how to change the gnome foot button?? Right-click - Properties - Icon Why not go even further, to really fool em you could have things like, a crash daemon, and to make the Luser (umm boss) really at home how about apps the have talking paper clips that say things like; it looks like your going to the toilet, do you want a hand? :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...
On 14 Jan, Peter Allworth wrote: Based on their walk-through strategy, I can see a need for a Linux screensaver that looks just like the default NT screensaver or login screen! :) Ah, so Linux becomes like the French Resistance, hiding itself from the Microsoft scouts looking for businesses to target with their new anti- Linux warfare strategies. Brilliant! Actually, I remember a talk at SLUG, where afterward the presenter mentioned that he and another engineer were secretly using Linux on their machines instead of the mandated NT. They did a screen grab of the NT desktop and used it as the screensaver image, and as the background on a 2nd desktop they could flip too, in case a manager walked by. Then all they had to do was explain how they could keep working when all the Windows machines on the network went down. luke John Rosauer wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23518.html ... when IBM, DEC, etc were doing this against Unix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...
It would be much more appropriate to use the M$ BSOD as a screen saver. I think that one comes standard with some Linux distros. Then that would really freak out the M$ account manager - Do they really have so many BSODs? Should I make a comment or not? On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jan, Peter Allworth wrote: Based on their walk-through strategy, I can see a need for a Linux screensaver that looks just like the default NT screensaver or login screen! :) Ah, so Linux becomes like the French Resistance, hiding itself from the Microsoft scouts looking for businesses to target with their new anti- Linux warfare strategies. Brilliant! Actually, I remember a talk at SLUG, where afterward the presenter mentioned that he and another engineer were secretly using Linux on their machines instead of the mandated NT. They did a screen grab of the NT desktop and used it as the screensaver image, and as the background on a 2nd desktop they could flip too, in case a manager walked by. Then all they had to do was explain how they could keep working when all the Windows machines on the network went down. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...
It would be much more appropriate to use the M$ BSOD as a screen saver. I think that one comes standard with some Linux distros. Then that would really freak out the M$ account manager - Do they really have so many BSODs? Should I make a comment or not? Back when I worked at UWS, we (the UNIX admins) installed a BSOD screen saver on an NT file server as a joke. The NT admin spotted it (after about a week) and panicked - he rebooted the machine at least twice before realising what was going on. I also used to run the BSOD on my Sun there too, which used to confuse the hell out of the windoze weenies as well. There is absolutely no way that an MS marketing organism would ever find it's way into my data centre, BTW. The fact that they would even anticipate having access is a little odious too. We didn't even let the Sun bods in there half the time without constant supervision. I would certainly not leave an MS one alone in there - they'd be pulling the cables out of everything/rebooting and then blaming it on the competition rachel - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant! Actually, I remember a talk at SLUG, where afterward the presenter mentioned that he and another engineer were secretly using Linux on their machines instead of the mandated NT. They did a screen grab of the NT desktop and used it as the screensaver image, and as the background on a 2nd desktop they could flip too, in case a manager walked by. Heh. :-) Fortunately, it's even easier to do that these days, with a little bit of care. Compare and contrast: http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/win-desktop.png http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/linux-desktop.png One being a shot of Windows ME, and the other being GNOME 1.4 with nautilus. You'd probably get even better results with KDE and Konqueror, but I don't have it installed. Careful choice of window manager, and a little fiddling with [GK]DM would be sure to fool the nosiest of PHBs. -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)
I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to fool the Boss. Anybody care to help me modify the icons etc.. eg. how to change the gnome foot button?? -Original Message- From: Peter Hardy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:13 PM To: slug Subject: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...) Heh. :-) Fortunately, it's even easier to do that these days, with a little bit of care. Compare and contrast: http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/win-desktop.png http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/linux-desktop.png -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)
quote who=George Vieira Anybody care to help me modify the icons etc.. eg. how to change the gnome foot button?? Right-click, hit properties. You'd want to modify the packages, however, for easy installation, etc. - Jeff -- The implementation of any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from pr0n. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: Disguising Linux (Was: [SLUG] Re: just like the old days ...)
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:25, George Vieira wrote: I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to fool the Boss. You could do that, but the screenshots at http://qvwm.org are scarily MS-like. Or it could be a good source of icons for your own project.. Anybody care to help me modify the icons etc.. eg. how to change the gnome foot button?? Right-click - Properties - Icon -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
