Alas for the easter eggs...

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Ben Dover — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:52:00 GMT

Not including the backdoors and other nasties like profanity that have been included in products in the past.

If an SDE or whoever wants to be mr.fancy pants they can do so in theyre own time but not on a live product unless its part of the spec. They could always apply to the games BU or consider a career in the Solitare team.

Its an issue of trust and the SDE abused that trust by including something not designed in.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Ben Dover — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:56:00 GMT

Its bad when a customer finds such backdoors and so called "gems" and has to get a QFE to fix them when they shouldnt be there in the first place. Enterprise (large scale) customers do run checks for such things especially ones that develop on such platforms. Telcos for example. This is an example Ive seen before, reports come in from telcos titled "Backdoor in operator console process" etc etc... ICSA Server from Microsoft had backdoors (and maybe still does for all we know).

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Ben Dover — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:11:00 GMT

Im curious, how does one "Evangelist" easter eggs.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Ben Dover — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:14:00 GMT

I think that shows a failure of the process. What CMM level are you again :D I would certinally reevaluate that.

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Ben Dover — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:33:00 GMT

I can see the "Fun" in such things, well 2 edge sword and always the issue is "Intent".

But given this drive for "Trustworthy computing" and the current state of the landscape on bugs and the complexity level of the products and this move into mission critical and even more so, life critical solutions. It doesnt belong there for obvious reasons.

You dont want this "Do as we say, not as we do" problem. All too often the problems arise in so called Mr.Fancy Pants code.

Why do you think the big iron boys have such rhobust and solid systems. The product is only as mature as the people working on it. Have you ever seen the code quality of big iron systems, VAX/VMS for one. There is a reason why those platforms are so solid.

Easter eggs

Sriram Krishnan — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:28:00 GMT

Easter eggs

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Gee — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:00:00 GMT

The inovation of the industry came from the imagination of the unconventional. By cramming these free-thinkers into coporate-world conventionality we're stifling the very creativity that got us this far...in my opinion.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Jim Kloss — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:14:00 GMT

Bingo Gee. They can search for 'em, find 'em, and root 'em out ... but they can't write 'em.

Easter egg != backdoor

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:23:00 GMT

Of course I'm not talking about back doors and security holes, I'm talking about classic easter eggs, like the one I linked to in Excel, or this one from the mature VAX/VMS system: http://www.eeggs.com/items/25011.html. The open source crown enjoys these too, http://www.eeggs.com/items/36008.html.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Hans Jergen Ohff — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:58:00 GMT

Yeah great, let them do that on theyre own time, if they want food in theyre mouth, they dont do it, simple. Welcome to corporate americASS.

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Jester — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:24:00 GMT

I was quite please when a client recently asked me to put in an Easter Egg. Pleased enough that I'll probably spend an hour or two of my own time some weekend to throw something in.

They also asked me to put in a TPS Report which I gladly did. It must be printed out and filed daily.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:16:00 GMT

Internet Explorer still has one from the old browser wars...As most people know, typeing "about:blank" opens a blank page in Internet Explorer. Typing "about:mozilla" opens up a blue screen...a reference to Netscape's browser which had a tendency to suffer from BSOD. Typing "about:mozilla" in a Netscape browser is another classic easter egg...

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

RichB — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:19:00 GMT

There are still easter eggs on the Microsoft website. I know, because I put one there.

One of these pages reads: "Last updated: 18 February 2004" at the bottom.

re: Alas for the easter eggs...

Hans Jergen Ohff — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:02:00 GMT

Your fired.

j-walkblog

TrackBack — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:16:00 GMT

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Panopticon Central — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:22:00 GMT

Not really.

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re: Alas for the easter eggs...

travelback — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:29:00 GMT

well im happy to see that google still has humor and eggs

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Short answer, yes. Do a search for 'easter eggs' by me, Manip in the coffeehouse.

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