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In article <60550@aurs01.UUCP>, davisw@aurs01.uucp (Walt Davis)             writes...
> 
>After a long wait we were finally bequeathed a Radius Pivot gray-scale
>monitor for our poor MAC nSE/30 from our secretary who upgraded to a full
>two-page display.  The installation was trivial, however after power-up
>we noticed some strange artifacts at the bottom of the monitor
>(long-ways).  It wasn't until we blackened the entire screen that the
>mystery was solved.  It turns out that the famous After-Dark fish
>"screen-saver" had burned the ocean floor into the phosphor of our
>monitor.  Granted our secretary probably kept the monitor on for months
>with the fish scene "saving" the monitor every night, but when does a
>"screen-saver" turn malicious?  Any other persistent ocean floors out
>there?
> 
>Walt Davis
>Alcatel Network Systems
>Raleigh, NC
>davisw%aurgate@mcnc.org
Since I am an MIT grad student, I was close enough so I could go to the 
MacWorld Expo at Boston in August last year. While there I stopped by the 
Berkeley Systems booth. I talked with people there and said I felt it was not a
good thing to have an ocean floor for this particular reason. However, the man
I talked to said that was why After Dark has an option to turn the floor off.
Personally, I prefer the Boris cat screen saver which comes with MAD. This one 
has a kitten either chasing after a butterfly or with the butterfly turned off,
will have the kitten occasionally purr, clean its face, or lie down. However, 
no screen saver should be considered a replacement for the best things of all 
to do: turn off your machine if you will be gone a long time, or use the knob
or brightness cdev to turn the brightness of your monitor off. Replies may be
sent to kettler@pierre.mit.edu.

					Sincerely yours,

					Thomas R. Kettler "Mac Nut"