#170542 - 14/07/2003 17:34
Mark Track -> Penguin!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/01/2002
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Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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OK, so I'm driving home last night and I have full random on. Faith No More - King For A Day comes on. I like it so I mark it. I have a custom shuffle that puts all my marked tracks in a random order at the beginning followed by the rest of the tracks (shuffle0=Marked,marked=32768,random=1 in config.ini)
Up pops the "Mark Track" box except instead of containing Marked it read "Penguin"! Did a BBS search and can't find any reference to it - so it would seem no one else has noticed/found it.
I had a look in the player binary and amongst the strings, I found the text:
"year...Swapping next...Penguin.Shuffle off.Shuffle on..Marked..Mark cleared....Found matching artist...Foun"
When I first saw it I thought I was seeing things. Now that I have found it in the binary I know I wasn't.
Problem is that I can't seem to reproduce it. Anyone else seen it happen? Or am I the first? Some kind of Easter Egg? Do I win a prize? 
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#170543 - 15/07/2003 01:38
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: Shonky]
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Registered: 13/07/2000
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I have a custom shuffle that puts all my marked tracks in a random order at the beginning followed by the rest of the tracks (shuffle0=Marked,marked=32768,random=1 in config.ini) 'Ecky thump, that's a good idea!
Not sure about the penguins -- I'll have a look when I get into the office...
Peter
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#170544 - 15/07/2003 06:40
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 25/08/2000
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Loc: NH USA
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"There's a Penguin on the telly!"
-Zeke
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#170545 - 15/07/2003 07:57
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: peter]
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isn't ecky thump the yorkshire version of kung-fu?
or maybe its just a faulty "Goodies" memory
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#170546 - 15/07/2003 10:46
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: Ezekiel]
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What's it doing?
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#170547 - 15/07/2003 11:31
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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Standin'!
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#170548 - 15/07/2003 14:08
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: Ezekiel]
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Warning off topic.
Did you find the larger version of your avitar picture ?
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#170549 - 15/07/2003 15:14
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: ashmoore]
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No, you are correct. Bird-watching Bill became a Grand Master of Ecky Thump.
Perhaps in this thread, it may have been more appropriate to use the local expression:
"Eeeeh, lad, BY GUM!!"
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#170550 - 15/07/2003 15:45
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: Shonky]
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Registered: 28/04/2002
Posts: 770
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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i was going to mention this before, but i've been swamped at work. here's how I reproduce "Penguin!"
i have it on random shuffle. probably doesnt make any difference.
basically, just mash on Tweak Artist (#2), then after 5-10 times, mash on Cancel (Mark). you're gonna see the easter egg. dunno if theres an exact sequence of button presses, but this is how i can consistently do it
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#170551 - 16/07/2003 00:58
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/01/2002
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Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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just mash on Tweak Artist (#2), then after 5-10 times, mash on Cancel (Mark). Yep that seems to be it. Tried it today at lunch. I think 5 presses of the "2" button is enough.
Kind of a wierd one though. Apart from the Penguin text it doesn't do a whole lot. Usually Easter Eggs have a bit more to them.
Edited by Shonky (16/07/2003 00:58)
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#170552 - 16/07/2003 06:57
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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Registered: 25/08/2000
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I believe I did (it's been a while). PM me and I'll send it via email or put it on an FTP site you can get to (when I get home).
-Zeke
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#170553 - 16/07/2003 07:06
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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Registered: 28/04/2002
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blah. ok, exact sequence is "2 - 2 - 4". i think the empeg guys were trying to be clever.... isn't the kernel revision they based it on v2.2.4?
edit: found out via ext3 discussion that it was based on 2.2.14. i was close =)
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#170554 - 16/07/2003 07:15
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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Registered: 13/07/2000
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blah. ok, exact sequence is "2 - 2 - 4". i think the empeg guys were trying to be clever.... isn't the kernel revision they based it on v2.2.4? Sheesh, conspiracy theorists! If you really want to know, the player software has a table of possible titles for that pop-up window, indexed by action and by whether the action is in progress, succeeded, or failed. Not all elements of the table are filled in, and the default string (if no entry is found) is, for some reason, "Penguin". One particular entry that isn't filled in is the "marking a track, in progress" one (on, presumably, the basis that marking a track is very quick and thus its in-progress message shouldn't ever be seen.)
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#170555 - 16/07/2003 07:24
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: peter]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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Sheesh, conspiracy theorists!
Theorists? what are you talking about? The whole world is just one big conspiracy. Everything from why my car breaks down at least once a week to Micro$oft to why I'm single to .... I know it for a fact that the conspiracy is real.
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#170556 - 16/07/2003 07:30
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: peter]
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the basis that marking a track is very quick and thus its in-progress message shouldn't ever be seen
oh, btw... bug report. doing this sequence disables the timed mark protection. if i keep on hitting mark, it switches rapidly between marked and unmarked.
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#170557 - 16/07/2003 07:47
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
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oh, btw... bug report. doing this sequence disables the timed mark protection. Doc! It' hurts when I do this!
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#170558 - 16/07/2003 07:56
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: tonyc]
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Registered: 25/12/2000
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Or, in the words of my favorite bug report workaround: Don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey
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#170560 - 16/07/2003 11:45
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: mcomb]
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I think the quote is:
Just because YOU'RE not paranoid dosn't mean they're NOT out to get you. I use that alot..
Me.
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#170561 - 16/07/2003 22:13
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 13/02/2002
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Don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey Heh. That's quite funny. Just yesterday, I had a chat with one of our animation software programmers. Animators were having problems of the time bar in the channel editor not updating properly. He fixed that, and was releasing a new version, but the new version came with a new bug -- sometimes when you hit the next or previous keyframe buttons, the time mark would skip over keyframes. The workaround? Press the mouse button faster. Boy, did I ever get an odd look when I passed that on to the animators.
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#170562 - 18/07/2003 08:47
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 18/11/2000
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In reply to:
Or, in the words of my favorite bug report workaround:
Don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey
What's the text of that bug report?
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#170563 - 18/07/2003 08:57
Re: Mark Track -> Penguin!
[Re: Captain_Chaos]
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Registered: 25/12/2000
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Under 2.7 (on pasta displayed remotely) rapidly clicking mouse buttons (1,2 and 3) on day, month, week and year view buttons, in dtcm with LANG=he_IL, gets the following XError:
<blah>
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
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Due to long redraw (backing store delays) I guess it would be reasonable to assume that the latency in the Xm/Xt/X &/or complex text layout layers might be the cause. Then there's some actual patch information.
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