Easter Eggs
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
I once released a Tetris like game that could be launched with the correct key sequence from anywhere within the application. This went out to well over a hundred servers with 5 to 10 users at most of the installations. I doubt anyone ever found it. We also had a help icon on each screen that when clicked popped up a message saying help not implemented. I changed one of them to say RTFM. I know someone found that because they phoned up to complain. I argued this showed we should actually get around to writing the help some day.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Dunno, are you allowed to put a Sanity Clause in your EULA?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Security author Michel E. Kabay discussed security concerns in 2000, saying that software quality assurance requires that all code be tested, but it is not known if Easter eggs are tested. He said that because they tend to be held as programming secrets from the rest of the product testing process, a "logic bomb" could also bypass testing.
I'd say that depending on the access gained and information kept it would be dependant on how the easter egg works and what access can potentially be granted access to if the easter egg is exploited or something. Regarding your question if it is just something that is written funny or so forth it would probably not be a problem, but be safe if it is frowned upon :-)
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
We once had a VDT for one of the British Police Forces which contained a hidden Space Invaders clone, where the invaders were replaced with policemen, and the UFO with a police car. They loved it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
This is a Leslie, but anyway ... Google Image search for 'Atari Breakout' and ... see what happens. Turn down your speaker volume before that. (Only on Chrome, I guess).
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We once had a VDT for one of the British Police Forces which contained a hidden Space Invaders clone, where the invaders were replaced with policemen, and the UFO with a police car. They loved it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
We once wrote a system for a UK Police force - my boss asked their project manager what it should do if a user tried to perform a particular action - "It should tell them to bugger off" was the reply. A few weeks later we got a complaint when somebody tried to do the offending action - the screen cleared, and slowly filled with "BUGGER OFF" in very large characters, while the speaker played the Monty Python theme. I was very proud of this, as it was a DOS based system, and the display was done with ASCII graphics and the tune was played by an assembler program. We had to change it to a pop up saying "Unauthorised action"
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
I created an Access(I shudder to think of the horrors I created with Access) application about 9 years ago that produced a catalogue for salesmen. The catalogue contained images prices and descriptions of products so that salesmen could generate adhoc catalogues for customers. On the 100th creation of a catalogue, an image of Cliff Richard would pop up with the words "Congratulations!" under it. The salesmen really liked it and like a small child asked to see it again which of course I refused to allow so every so often there would be great joy when a 100th catalogue was created.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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We once wrote a system for a UK Police force - my boss asked their project manager what it should do if a user tried to perform a particular action - "It should tell them to bugger off" was the reply. A few weeks later we got a complaint when somebody tried to do the offending action - the screen cleared, and slowly filled with "BUGGER OFF" in very large characters, while the speaker played the Monty Python theme. I was very proud of this, as it was a DOS based system, and the display was done with ASCII graphics and the tune was played by an assembler program. We had to change it to a pop up saying "Unauthorised action"
========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================
I hope you first pointed them at the spec, and sat back looking smug! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
Ever tried the Konami code on Code Project ?
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
My school project was a calculator that could also interprete variables and derive functions. My teammate and I programm included a 3D rotating cube that was displayed full screen when calculating the power of 3 of any expression.
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My school project was a calculator that could also interprete variables and derive functions. My teammate and I programm included a 3D rotating cube that was displayed full screen when calculating the power of 3 of any expression.
Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Surely, it can't really be considered an Easter egg if the user doesn't have to do anything more than use the application for what it was intended to find it??? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeHow much time does a school project get used ? We did want it to be found out :-\
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Dunno, are you allowed to put a Sanity Clause in your EULA?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeI don't believe in no Sanity Clause . . . ;P Sorry . . someone had to . . .
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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Are you allowed to put easter eggs or humorous messages in your programs? We write business apps, so it's frowned upon. I just had Avira launch a scanning window titled Luke Filewalker :)
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I hope you first pointed them at the spec, and sat back looking smug! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I think this is every corporate developers favorite pastime. Unfortunately, I rarely get to do it, due to a complete lack of valid specs... :sigh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Ever tried the Konami code on Code Project ?
Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Is it supposed to do more than expand all the messages and put a life bar of Bobs at the bottom?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
I think you missed the unicorn on the rainbow. Ok, just kidding, there was only something with infinite or very high rep points, IIRC.
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I don't believe in no Sanity Clause . . . ;P Sorry . . someone had to . . .
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
Indeed - I was hoping someone would. :thumbsup: Here's Marx, my favorite philosopher: Clickety[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
