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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utgpu!jefman
- From: jefman@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (J. Mann)
- Subject: Re: Login screen saver
- Message-ID: <BxzF94.50M@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- References: <1992Nov17.185911.15985@news.uiowa.edu> <1252@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <fred.722114318@ivhs.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:19:52 GMT
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- In article <fred.722114318@ivhs.mot.com> fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner) writes:
- [about screen savers:]
- >I seem to have good luck with the "ON/OFF" switch on my monitor. Save power!
-
- I used to do that but several times noticed that the power surge of turning
- on the monitor while A/UX was running caused such things as disk read errors,
- etc. I wouldn't recommend it.
-
- I use "After Dark"; be sure to get the "Fade Away" module which just fades
- to black; the other fancy ones drain cpu time.
-
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- Jeff Mann -- usually mann@intacc.uucp, but intacc has been down for
- the last couple of weeks because bugs in A/UX 3.0 pax
- and tc drivers prevent me from restoring my backup tapes.
- --
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- Jeff Mann -- usually mann@intacc.uucp, but intacc has been down for
- the last couple of weeks because bugs in A/UX 3.0 pax
- and tc drivers prevent me from restoring my backup tapes.
-