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Article #6246Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful?
From: Marc T. Kaufman
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 16:21
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 16:21
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In article <25674.25331193@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: >...My point >is, you've got everything to gain and nothing to lose in using a screen >saver, so I don't see why anyone would be so against it. I used to use a screen saver, but I took it out of the system when I found it interfering with some applications. Not ALL applications can handle the screen update properly, and not all screen savers let the application run while they are pfutzing with the screen. Try starting a long build in MPW. When the screen saver kicks in, everything goes to H***, sometimes including a crash. Maybe, when I can again assure that the screen saver never kicks in unless everything is idle, I will go back to using one again. [I used one for many months, happily, before I finally put it aside]. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!shelby!polya!Neon.Stanford.EDU!kaufman From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful? Message-ID: <12392@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 12 Oct 89 16:21:24 GMT References: <25674.25331193@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: USENET News System <news@Polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 15