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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:20:41 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
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Subject: Re: An interesting signature
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990705233339.A80211@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> you write:
> >XScreenSaver(1)                                   XScreenSaver(1)
> >
> >
> >NAME
> >       bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator
> >
> >SYNOPSIS
> >       bsod  [-display  host:display.screen]  [-foreground color]
> >       [-background color] [-window] [-root]  [-mono]  [-install]
> >       [-visual visual] [-delay seconds]
> 
> I'm sorry, but your email must have gotten truncated, I didn't see
> the attached code that implements this.  Can you please resend?  :-)

    ports/x11/xscreensaver/

I'm serious, it really does exist.  Install the port, and then either run
"bsod" by hand, and click in the window to cycle through the samples, or
let it run as a regular screensaver.

Seriously confused one of my work colleagues when an Amiga Guru Meditation
error appeared on my display.

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>


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