Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!udel!princeton!glasses!bskendig From: bskendig@glasses.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Wanted: Energiser Bunny! Message-ID: <4837@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 19 Dec 90 04:48:44 GMT References: <749@taniwha.UUCP> <18996@netcom.UUCP> <4816@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 87 In article <4816@idunno.Princeton.EDU> I wrote: >In article <18996@netcom.UUCP> seitz@netcom.UUCP (Matthew Seitz) writes: >>Where on NIGHT OF THE LIVING DISK is the bunny? What's the file name? > >There are two files: NetBunny, which is the INIT (which can be named >anything, in fact; the author recommends that it be named something >innocent-sounding like `PrintMonitor Prefs' so as not to arouse >suspicion), and StartWabbit, which can start a bunny anywhere on the >network. You can use Find File to locate them; I know they're also on >the System 7.0b1 CD. And, since I posted that, I have received via email a few dozen requests for it. Now, there are two reasons why I can't send it to y'all. First off, I'm very hesitant to; I remember its creator posting to the net before and saying something about having to get permission from Energizer or something like that. I agree that's silly, but I'd rather think it's silly than sit here with some sort of legal action on my shoulders... ;) Second off, I've much too much work to do, especially with the holidays coming up, to personally tend to every single request. I wish things were different -- really, I do! -- but the only real way to distribute this would be to send it to comp.sys.mac.binaries and/or sumex. I also can't send notes of apology in response to the myriad requests for the same reason. Sorry! But the least I can do is explain what it is, definitively: First, you go around and stick the NetBunny INIT in peoples' System Folders, and reboot their machines. Then you run StartWabbit from someplace where they can't see you. StartWabbit brings up a Chooser-style dialog box that lets you select zones and wabbit-weady machines in each zone to trigger the wabbit on them. When you trigger a machine, the Energizer Bunny -- a three-inch-high fuzzy pink rabbit with black sunglasses and a big bass drum -- will move across the bottom of the victim's monitor. It's a digitized image, and it flips back and forth between a shot of the bunny holding its drumstick ready to boom, and a shot of the bunny hitting the drum -- simple animation. And there are plenty of caveats! Since the NetBunny is color, it only runs on a Macintosh with a color display; I assume you much have more than eight bits thereof. I assume that StartWabbit will work on any Macintosh, but it bombed my moderately INIT-laden SE, and it had no trouble with an SE/30. In my `tests' -- I secretly dropped it in the system folders in one of my offices -- it worked fine on a IIx and a IIsi, but it killed the sound; there was no sound when the bunny crossed, and thereafter any sysbeeps would only flash the menubar no matter what level the Control Panel volume was set to under system 6.0.7. And it seems that sometimes, after I triggered it once, it would keep crossing over and over again until I hit the reset button. And it seemed to give the IIx indigestion, and crashed it a few times. It's cute, I'll admit, for a few seconds, after which it gets old quickly. But with these bugs, you'd better be sure your victim isn't in the middle of something important! On second thought -- hmm. If someone would email me instructions on how to get something sent to the sumex archives, and on how to get something to comp.sys.mac.binaries, I might just stuff the whihole taco together and leave the legal difficulties up to the moderators of those two media. But if you don't have this information for me, please don't send me any more requests! Now, for a random thought: I wonder if the Energizer Bunny uses the System 7 Caffeine Manager discussed here last spring? Anyone from Apple want to tell me if there's been any more work done on that? I have a Mr. Coffee that I'd like to be able to hook up to work with Microsoft Word -- thok thok thok thok thok thok Hey, who let _him_ in here? << Brian >> No, really! Who let that rabbit in here -- hey, watch it, you're about to run into my power co | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."