Some of you may remember that I raved about the "MarineAquarium" screensaver, and wished for a Linux equivalent. We-e-e-ll... the guy who made the original screensaver, and who still occasionally creates new add-in fish for it, has talked about some off-beat critters such as an octopus. He's got an actual life, so doing this stuff is not exactly his top priority. But the man is an excellent artist and (apparently) programmer, and would be pleased to put the effort into making a new critter if he had some money coming in. I was thinking that some company might want to commission the creation of that octopus. It would wander and flow over the aquarium bottom, the reef, and occasionally the front glass. Many of you probably know that octopi are more adept at the chameleon thing than chameleons are.... You see where this is leading. At irregular intervals, the octopus would assume a configuration and color pattern that would display the SuSE lizard head, or the Novell logo. Once it had been developed, there'd be no further cost to Novell/SuSE, except the space on their web-site to promote it and allow it to be downloaded. Soon aquaria on Windows desktops everywhere would sport the Novell/SuSE octopus. What I especially like about this kind of guerilla/viral marketing is that Microsoft itself includes a limited version of the MarineAquarium screensaver in their "PLUS!" collection, along with a link to the creator's website where users can upgrade and add more fish. So, Microsoft would be helping to spread the SuSE and Novell logos on their own user's desktops. Whaddya think? Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:10:43PM -0400, mlist@safenet-inc.com took 43 lines to write:
Some of you may remember that I raved about the "MarineAquarium" screensaver, and wished for a Linux equivalent.
We-e-e-ll... the guy who made the original screensaver, and who still occasionally creates new add-in fish for it, has talked about some off-beat critters such as an octopus. He's got an actual life, so doing this stuff is not exactly his top priority. But the man is an excellent artist and (apparently) programmer, and would be pleased to put the effort into making a new critter if he had some money coming in.
[art discussion snipped] This sounds like a great idea on which to place a bounty. KUrt -- The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. -- Laurence J. Peter
Kurt Wall wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:10:43PM -0400, mlist@safenet-inc.com took 43 lines to write:
Some of you may remember that I raved about the "MarineAquarium" screensaver, and wished for a Linux equivalent.
We-e-e-ll... the guy who made the original screensaver, and who still occasionally creates new add-in fish for it, has talked about some off-beat critters such as an octopus. He's got an actual life, so doing this stuff is not exactly his top priority. But the man is an excellent artist and (apparently) programmer, and would be pleased to put the effort into making a new critter if he had some money coming in.
[art discussion snipped]
This sounds like a great idea on which to place a bounty.
It's certainly a Novell idea. ;-)
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:22 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Kurt Wall wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:10:43PM -0400, mlist@safenet-inc.com took 43 lines to write:
Some of you may remember that I raved about the "MarineAquarium" screensaver, and wished for a Linux equivalent.
We-e-e-ll... the guy who made the original screensaver, and who still occasionally creates new add-in fish for it, has talked about some off-beat critters such as an octopus. He's got an actual life, so doing this stuff is not exactly his top priority. But the man is an excellent artist and (apparently) programmer, and would be pleased to put the effort into making a new critter if he had some money coming in.
[art discussion snipped]
This sounds like a great idea on which to place a bounty.
It's certainly a Novell idea. ;-)
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers... Roger
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 01:02 samaye Roger Oberholtzer alekhiit:
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers...
Hey, ever take a look at these: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE) S:R)
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:20, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 01:02 samaye Roger Oberholtzer alekhiit:
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers...
Hey, ever take a look at these:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank
if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE)
S:R)
apt-get install xfishtank ;-) -- Mark A. Taff With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. --RFC 1925
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 18:30 -0700, Mark A. Taff wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:20, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 01:02 samaye Roger Oberholtzer alekhiit:
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers...
Hey, ever take a look at these:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank
if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE)
I have run xfishtank. It is not really in the same league. Similiar concept. Vastly different execution. Like command.com vs. /bin/sh. Both are shells, but the similarite ends there.
On Friday 07 October 2005 23:29, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 18:30 -0700, Mark A. Taff wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:20, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 01:02 samaye Roger Oberholtzer alekhiit:
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers...
Hey, ever take a look at these:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank
if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE)
I have run xfishtank. It is not really in the same league. Similiar concept. Vastly different execution. Like command.com vs. /bin/sh. Both are shells, but the similarite ends there.
You are correct. xfishtank pales next to commercial Windows offerings as far as beauty is concerned. Perhaps there is an aquarium hobbyist on the list who could help the author update xfishtank? -- Mark A. Taff With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. --RFC 1925
Sunday 09 Oct 2005 01:35 samaye Mark A. Taff alekhiit:
You are correct. xfishtank pales next to commercial Windows offerings as far as beauty is concerned. Perhaps there is an aquarium hobbyist on the list who could help the author update xfishtank?
Well there are entire companies which do nothing but sell screensavers for Windows, if I am not mistaken. And entire companies with sell just themes. It is not at all surprising that something that some enthusiast created during his spare time (I hope I am not offending anybody by saying this) is not of the same quality of something created by full-time effort. Anybody wants to speculate on where Linux will be today if it weren't for companies that full-time develop only Linux? [Notice I kept money out of the equation.] Shriramana.
On Friday 07 October 2005 21:20, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 01:02 samaye Roger Oberholtzer alekhiit:
But still no Linux equivalent... Of course, I have a fireplace/fishtank DVD (12 year old daughter - don't ask). Maybe I can just mplayer it as a screen saver. After all, most of these savers are not CPU savers...
Hey, ever take a look at these:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank
if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE)
xfishtank is on SuSE Pro 9.2 % =>locate xfishtank /etc/xscreensaver/xfishtank.xml /usr/share/doc/packages/xfishtank /usr/share/doc/packages/xfishtank/README /usr/share/doc/packages/xfishtank/README.KDE /usr/share/doc/packages/xfishtank/README.Linux /usr/share/doc/packages/xfishtank/README.TrueColor /usr/X11R6/bin/xfishtank
On Friday 07 October 2005 20:20, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Hey, ever take a look at these:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kfish http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xfishtank
if you find out how to convert them to SUSE tell me too. Have fun! (crosses fingers and hopes Roger will have luck porting these to SUSE)
S:R)
XFishtank is included with SuSE 9.3, you know: mitch@colossus:~> which xfishtank /usr/X11R6/bin/xfishtank mitch@colossus:~> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/bin/xfishtank xfishtank-2.2-728 mitch@colossus:~> pin xfishtank
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 07:07 samaye Mitch Thompson alekhiit:
XFishtank is included with SuSE 9.3, you know:
Thanks people, but I currently have only Win XP and SUSE 10 RC1 running on my system (until my 10 GM dload is finished). So can you please tell me what I do to get it on SUSE 10? Thanks.
On Friday 07 October 2005 22:28, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 07:07 samaye Mitch Thompson alekhiit:
XFishtank is included with SuSE 9.3, you know:
Thanks people, but I currently have only Win XP and SUSE 10 RC1 running on my system (until my 10 GM dload is finished). So can you please tell me what I do to get it on SUSE 10?
According to Novell, xfishtank is included in 10.0. http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/xfishtank.html
Saturday 08 Oct 2005 08:12 samaye Synthetic Cartoonz alekhiit:
According to Novell, xfishtank is included in 10.0. http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/xfishtank.html
I search in YaST of RC 1 - no result. Do I have to install separately?
Excellent! B-) On Friday 07 October 2005 1:10 pm, mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
Some of you may remember that I raved about the "MarineAquarium" screensaver, and wished for a Linux equivalent.
We-e-e-ll... the guy who made the original screensaver, and who still occasionally creates new add-in fish for it, has talked about some off-beat critters such as an octopus. He's got an actual life, so doing this stuff is not exactly his top priority. But the man is an excellent artist and (apparently) programmer, and would be pleased to put the effort into making a new critter if he had some money coming in.
I was thinking that some company might want to commission the creation of that octopus. It would wander and flow over the aquarium bottom, the reef, and occasionally the front glass. Many of you probably know that octopi are more adept at the chameleon thing than chameleons are.... You see where this is leading. At irregular intervals, the octopus would assume a configuration and color pattern that would display the SuSE lizard head, or the Novell logo. Once it had been developed, there'd be no further cost to Novell/SuSE, except the space on their web-site to promote it and allow it to be downloaded.
Soon aquaria on Windows desktops everywhere would sport the Novell/SuSE octopus.
What I especially like about this kind of guerilla/viral marketing is that Microsoft itself includes a limited version of the MarineAquarium screensaver in their "PLUS!" collection, along with a link to the creator's website where users can upgrade and add more fish. So, Microsoft would be helping to spread the SuSE and Novell logos on their own user's desktops.
Whaddya think?
Kevin
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Synthetic Cartoonz