From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 23 10:22:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 335DC14D2D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:22:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 5820 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 18:22:40 -0000 Received: from userbk54.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.62) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 1999 18:22:40 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA00726; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:22:35 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:22:35 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Michael Searle Cc: David Kelly , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: programming port Message-ID: <19991223182235.A327@marder-1> References: <199912230300.VAA57531@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19991223063430.A323@marder-1> <19991223150709.23124@longacre.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991223150709.23124@longacre.demon.co.uk> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:07:09PM +0000, Michael Searle wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 06:34:31AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > Yes, it's in the latest version of xscreensaver (3.21). From bsod(1): > > > > "Systems depicted include Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows > > NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3, SPARC Linux, SCO UNIX, > > the Apple Macintosh (both the MacsBug debugger and the rarer > > "Sad Mac"), and the Atari ST." > > They are in the process of getting a Win2K crash as well - they > started booting it up a few weeks ago, so if we are lucky it should > be up and ready to crash before the end of the millennium. > > Running this screensaver seems like a good way for a well meaning > person to power cycle your machine though. Ooops... > Someone at work has a BSoD screensaver running on NT itself (honestly, it *is* a screensaver). As well as displaying the BSoD it then goes on to display a simulated re-boot and CHKDSK, finding thousands of corrupt clusters, removing "lost" files etc. All a bit too realistic for my liking :) > There is a Flying Windows screensaver port as well, with the windows being > shot down. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > > > ===================================================================== > > > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > > > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture > > that allows you to install Windows too" > > -Matthew D. Fuller > > I think they fixed that a long time ago - I've not seen Windows running > stably on any PC. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > -- > searle@longacre.demon.co.uk > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message