[lug] Weird Experience

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "J" == J Wayde Allen <wallen at lug.boulder.co.us> writes:

J> Not sure what to make of the following.

J> I was sitting here in my office with my Debian box running as
J> usual.  I happened to notice a fairly large amount of disk activity
J> but didn't think much of it, until I looked at the screen.  The
J> image on my desktop was no longer what I had set it to me, but
J> rather a collection of what looked like advertising logos, although
J> some of them looked like they had bee cut up and weren't complete.
J> The system itself seemed to be operational.  Logging out and then
J> back in gave me back my usual desktop.

J> I'm just wondering what happened?  Something odd between the screen
J> saver and web browser ...?  Hacking activity ...?

I bet you had xscreensaver on random, and it picked the webcollage
scrensaver: 

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/explain.html

it goes out and grabs random images from the net and puts them in a
collage. It's usually pretty hard on bandwith. ;) 

J> - Wayde (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)

kevin
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