Screen Saver Not Funny
Albert A. Modderkolk
mdd at advwebsys.com
Wed Sep 21 00:13:28 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:36 -0400, Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> [BSOD screensaver]
>
> > It is a lot funnier after you realize that the crash screens are
> > from other operating systems, not Linux...
>
> Not so fast. "man bsod" shows:
>
> "bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation of a
> different failure mode of an operating system. Systems depicted
> include Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, MS-DOS, AmigaDOS 1.3,
> Linux, SCO UNIX, BSD UNIX, HPUX, Solaris, VMS, HVX/GCOS6, IBM OS/390,
> MacOS (MacsBug, Bomb, Sad Mac, and OSX), Atari ST, Apple ][+, and NCD X
> Terminals."
>
> You can also use the preview option under Preferences/screensaver to see
> the Linux "crash".
>
> For me, it was creepy to see a Guru Meditation error on my Linux box. :)
>
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> * Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <charletiv at gmail.com>
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> * Web: http://www.rickandpatty.com
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>
Where are those files??? When I do Desktop->Preferences->Screensaver
(FC4 Gnome) all I get is an empty list :-(
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