Snow and penguins in Xmas hats, all over my boot menu!!!
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From: Stephen Horne on 30 Nov 2009 23:29 After working in OpenSUSE 11.2 this morning, I rebooted to go into Windows for a bit, and got a surprise on the boot menu - snow effects and penguins (at least one with a Christmas hat) wandering around the screen ;-) This is all nice and jolly, but being the Scrooge that I am, I want to know how come someone's playing around with my boot menu without my permission? Was this little surprise built into the 11.2 distro, or what? I was connect to the internet while using OpenSUSE this morning, but only in the sense that the modem was plugged in - I haven't done any deliberate updates since I installed 11.2.
From: Mateusz Viste on 1 Dec 2009 02:09 On Tuesday 01 December 2009 05:29, Stephen Horne wrote: > This is all nice and jolly, but being the Scrooge that I am, I want to > know how come someone's playing around with my boot menu without my > permission? Nobody's playing with your stuff, don't worry. :-) > Was this little surprise built into the 11.2 distro, Of course. See here to disable it: http://en.opensuse.org/Animated_Penguin_GRUB_Splash_Screen Best regards, Mateusz Viste
From: David Bolt on 1 Dec 2009 05:40 On Tuesday 01 Dec 2009 04:29, while playing with a tin of spray paint, Stephen Horne painted this mural: > > After working in OpenSUSE 11.2 this morning, I rebooted to go into > Windows for a bit, and got a surprise on the boot menu - snow effects > and penguins (at least one with a Christmas hat) wandering around the > screen ;-) It happens at this time of year. Just say thank goodness you don't have Tux flying around the screen in a souped-up sleigh while pretending to be Santa. > This is all nice and jolly, but being the Scrooge that I am, I want to > know how come someone's playing around with my boot menu without my > permission? Nobody did. During December, the grub graphical boot menu has a chance to display this animated display rather than the quite plain, and very static, normal boot menu. > Was this little surprise built into the 11.2 distro, or > what? It's built in to 11.2, and every other release since 10.2. Oh were the discussions about it quite fun when it was first seen :-) > I was connect to the internet while using OpenSUSE this morning, > but only in the sense that the modem was plugged in - I haven't done > any deliberate updates since I installed 11.2. Mateusz already gave you the link on how to turn it off although, as it was written up as a howto for 10.2/10.3, it may not actually work with any of the later versions. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02
From: Vahis on 1 Dec 2009 12:32 On 2009-12-01, Stephen Horne <sh006d3592(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > After working in OpenSUSE 11.2 this morning, I rebooted to go into > Windows for a bit, and got a surprise on the boot menu - snow effects > and penguins (at least one with a Christmas hat) wandering around the > screen ;-) You've already got good explanations, so I'm only adding that it's an "Easter Egg". In this context it means any otherwise useless but amusing and harmless pranks that creators hide in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, and so on. > > This is all nice and jolly, but being the Scrooge that I am, I want to > know how come someone's playing around with my boot menu without my > permission? Was this little surprise built into the 11.2 distro, or > what? I was connect to the internet while using OpenSUSE this morning, > but only in the sense that the modem was plugged in - I haven't done > any deliberate updates since I installed 11.2. Don't worry, it's OK. It's been around for years and you _can_ turn it off if you like. Vahis -- "Sunrise 9:00am (EET), sunset 3:19pm (EET) at Espoo, Finland (6:18 hours daylight)" http://waxborg.servepics.com Linux 2.6.25.20-0.5-default #1 SMP 2009-08-14 01:48:11 +0200 x86_64 7:19pm up 32 days 0:20, 10 users, load average: 0.47, 0.35, 0.33
From: Stephen Horne on 1 Dec 2009 12:45
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:09:41 +0100, Mateusz Viste <mateusz(a)no-spam.please> wrote: >http://en.opensuse.org/Animated_Penguin_GRUB_Splash_Screen Thanks for the link. I was actually pretty disappointed to *not* see the penguins this afternoon, though - maybe I'll set them to appear all the time. |