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Do you still occasionally run the SETI@home screensaver?
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Contact Send message Joined: 16 Jan 00 Posts: 194 Credit: 2,249,004 RAC: 0 |
If you navigate to: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project and edit: URL of background image You could get a visit from BOINC Synergy's Friendly Alien when SETI@home's screensaver graphics is launched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeGNAZY92k&t=0s&list=PLAB67EF0DE75E711D&index=13 |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Cute. I don't run any screensaver. I have no need. My screens go blank if I step away for more than a couple of minutes and I turn them off when I'm done for the day. ~Sue~ |
Contact Send message Joined: 16 Jan 00 Posts: 194 Credit: 2,249,004 RAC: 0 |
I'm sure you have described the modus operandi of most computer users, myself included. The original purpose was to prevent burn-in and very long warm up cycle on CRT and plasma screens, so savers have become obsolete with LED & LCD monitors. Every so often I become an energy glutton and run BOINC's screensaver for an hour or more despite my better judgement. Rebel! I often stop soon after I get the stink-eye from a family member. Or the mention of the cost of electricity :) |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I run the classic After Dark - Starry Night screensaver on both my Windows computers and my Macintosh. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
At home, like Susie, if I'm going to be away from the screen for a few minutes I hit the off button. At work we use the windows "locked computer" screen as an indicator that one is in the office but away from one's desk. But I don't crunch at work as the thought po-lice won't let us. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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