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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:22:35 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: programming port
Message-ID:  <19991223182235.A327@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <19991223150709.23124@longacre.demon.co.uk>
References:  <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <199912230300.VAA57531@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19991223063430.A323@marder-1> <19991223150709.23124@longacre.demon.co.uk>

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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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > -- 
> > 	"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. 
> 
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> -- 
> searle@longacre.demon.co.uk
> 
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