• AC (unregistered) in reply to DW

    The only thing worse that the 3D savers for a server in the BSOD screensaver. Surest way to get the server power cycled.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Lorne Kates

    TRWTF is not using system policy to enforce the screen saver.

    Lorne Kates:
    OR if you want to get real fancy:

    Set up a second computer with the pipes screen saver.

    Hack a KVM so act like a screen saver-- IE, when there's no input from A for a certain amount of time, switch to B. As soon as there's any activity on A, switch back to it. Ignore all input from B.

    Disable the screen saved on A.

    Or just install a remote control app to control the server from the second computer.

  • (cs)

    I seem to remember in the days of prehistory, that a US warship had Windows NT 3.51 ? installed on some engine management computer because it was the last Windows certifiable as secure.

    Somebody enabled OpenGL pipes or flying stuff screen saver and the warship was disabled, as the screensaver took over from the engine management going on in the background ...

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    1200 bits per second provides approximately 120 bytes per second of useful throughput.

    80,000 bytes / 120 bytes per second = 667 seconds

    667 seconds / 60 seconds per minute = 11 minutes.

    That's without compression.

  • Remy Monsen (unregistered)

    Wow... I can really relate to this story.

    I was visiting a shop many years ago, and the guy at the cash register was complaining that the register (which was a standard desktop computer) always took so much time (more than a minute) before the attached money drawer would open. They've had technicians looking at it multiple times, and each time it would work for about an hour after the technician left.

    I was allowed to have a look at the server (Also a Windows NT box like in this story) (I didn't know the guy at the counter, but I was in the company of someone who did, which is why I was allowed access), and guess what I found running on the screen..... Yep, beautiful colored pipes all over it, happily keeping the CPU from idling. A minor screen saver configuration later (changing it to "Blank"), and the cash drawer delay was a thing of the past....

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