Here I came a couple of them on http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue89/vinayak.html
The first two are well known (mozilla and ddate).
Anybody has discovered anything else post it here.
Have fun!!!
-Boris

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I liked the old lpd easter egg, where in older versions of linux, if you used a certain option when querying the printer, it would reply "printer is on fire".

Easter eggs can be kind of fun, but when you think about it, all they are is bloat.
If I installed open office on my linux server with my little 5 gigs of space, and there was an easter egg flight simulator, I'd be severely pissed.
I'm not talking about funny little error messages like the "printer on fire" thing. That's not bloat because it doesn't take up any more room than a message that says "printer is jammed."

I always understood that "Printer on fire" would be reported when the system coudn't establish the status of a printer, but know that something was up with it, rather that it being reported instead of other error messages.

cheers

Jamie...

You realize that wasn't a real egg, right?

Although I think it'd be kinda cool, actually.

>I always understood that "Printer on fire" would be reported when the system coudn't establish the status of a printer, but know that something was up with it, rather that it being reported instead of other error messages.

I think in most cases you're right, but IIRC if you used a really bizarre set of options with it (that no one would normally ever use) you could get it to do the "printer on fire" thing on demand.

I don't understand, why isn't a flight simulator inside a spreadsheet program a real egg?
Program does something it's not supposed to do, maker doesn't advertise that particular function, the function has nothing to do with the stated "point" of the program, and the only way to access it is through a series of keystrokes that one would normally not just happen upon.

that was a real egg, jus not with open office. it was either ms word or excell that it was in.

If you read the whole page, you'll see this at the bottom:

"I am not responsible if after trying out the easter eggs, your dog bites your mother-in-law or your sound card caught fire while trying out the key sequences. What is more likely is that you have got a hand sprain while trying out the key sequences while waiting for something to pop up on screen. By the way these were not supposed to be easter eggs planted by programmers . The first two easter eggs were real to con you into believing that all the other easter eggs listed in this article existed. So how was it to be sent on a wild goose chase? I know you feel like a complete moron . Happy April Fools day!!!"

That's what kinda led to believe that there isn't a flight simulator in Open Office.

Also, the egg in MS Word wasn't a flight sim if I remember correctly. It was something like pinball or pacman or something, something not as memory intensive.

Also, there's a fun one in the Gimp. Open up a picture, right click on it, and while you're holding the button, ----> Filters ----> Toys ----> Gee-Zoom. Move your mouse around! WEEEE!

The flight simulator in MS Excel '97 is a well known easter egg.

http://www.t0.or.at/~micz/threadder/messages/14.htm
http://www.eeggs.com/items/29841.html
http://www.dgl.com/dglinfo/1998/dg980314a.html
http://www.eggscentral.com/applications/10_2.html
http://lamp.man.deakin.edu.au/jokes98/msg00045.html

Cool, have used gimp off and on for 6 months now, and did'nt know this existed. One could make some wild looking Avatars....

You want some good easter eggs? grep the kernel source code for naughty words.

Not an easter egg but to do with error messages. I have several people that I email linux error messages to when I get them because alot of them are funny. You get used to the dull nondescriptive messages from Microsoft and then you see some from linux that are funny and also actually tell you what the problem is.

I have found many errors that reference to "Hitchhikers guide to the galixy" and from Lord of the Rings and such. Nothing like that in windows that I have found yet.