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Article #6273Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful?
From: Eric Pepke
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 20:47
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 20:47
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In article <12392@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes: >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]. I just tried doing a build in MPW and then forcing After Dark to go on by putting the cursor into the "sleep now" region. It worked fine. While MPW was doing the build, After Dark didn't get much processing time, which is as it should be. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!gatech!prism!vsserv!loligo!pepke From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful? Message-ID: <272@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 12 Oct 89 20:47:55 GMT References: <25674.25331193@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <12392@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: pepke@loligo.UUCP (Eric Pepke) Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Lines: 19