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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:07:09 +0000
From:      Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
Cc:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: programming port
Message-ID:  <19991223150709.23124@longacre.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19991223063430.A323@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 06:34:31AM %2B0000
References:  <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <199912230300.VAA57531@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19991223063430.A323@marder-1>

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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 06:34:31AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 09:00:44PM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> > Jonathon McKitrick writes:
> > > 
> > > I've heard that Microsoft's most valuable configuration/programming tool
> > > is the reboot.  Any idea when this will be ported to FreeBSD?  Maybe we
> > > would be more popular if we used it more often.  ;-)
> > 
> > Didn't somebody do a BSOD module for xscreensaver or similar? If I
> > remember they were collecting images of any and all crashed systems they
> > could get their hands on. Realistic Win 3, 95, 98, NT 4.0, MacOS, and 
> > Amiga bombs.
> > 
> 
> 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...

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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