Jul -- Computers and Technology: Screen savers

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Posted on 04-19-10 10:19:20 PM

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I'd love to have some flying toasters for my PC..

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Posted on 04-19-10 10:43:22 PM

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Originally posted by yde
I'd love to have some flying toasters for my PC..

I've seen a flying toasters screensaver on my teacher's PC in the 11th and 12th grade, apparently he had the AfterDark software back then when windows 98 was still being used throughout the school.

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Posted on 04-20-10 01:44:29 AM

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BooUrn's looks really interesting though, too bad it's probably hardcoded to specific things.

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Posted on 04-20-10 01:47:05 AM

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I have no screen saver on my laptop, it just goes into sleep mode, but on the home computer I have it show a random image from my Pictures folder.

Visitors have fun guessing what the pictures are. My friend didn't recognize a bed.

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Posted on 04-20-10 01:48:28 AM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

BooUrn's looks really interesting though, too bad it's probably hardcoded to specific things.

Woah, blank screen moment there, I have used that particular screen saver before, but not by much when I learned to simply just turn off the monitor to save electricity.

But I guess that this particular screen saver would be useful for notebook PC's and netbooks, but I wouldn't recommend it when trying to watch a movie or if in a full screen game since screen savers do tend to go all crazy sometimes, least from my experience with windows xp.

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Posted on 04-20-10 01:56:26 AM

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I remember this fractal screensaver that I used to have for Windows 95/98 a long time ago... it was in 16 colors and more intended for Windows 3.1x... does anyone remember the name of this? I would love to download it for my Windows 98 machine, to relive some memories of my past... =D

I also had a screensaver called "Gates Does Windows 95", where he bangs on the screen with a hammer, smashing the desktop and putting up the Windows 95 desktop... I think this was also for Windows 3.1x, too... (I've already downloaded this one, since I thought it was a pretty funny screensave back in the day.)

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Posted on 04-20-10 02:10:37 AM

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None right now (not even a blank screen), I just turn off the screens whenever I'm away

But I've used them before, long ago:
- On my old Macintosh, Pyro (it had color too)
- On Windows 95, I used the 3D maze with custom images, like a drawing of my computer (which I used as a wallpaper at the time) on the walls
- I used the stars, 3D text and 3D pipes for a while as well
- I had a year 2000 countdown for most of 1999 (just text and a plain background, with the colors slowly changing)

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Posted on 04-20-10 07:58:49 AM (last edited by Sanky at 04-20-10 04:59 AM)

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	Right now, I use the, uhh, the "Lines" screensaver on Vista. (I don't know the name, it's in Czech. I swear, the next time I install Windows, I'll set the interface to English.) On the matter, does anyone know of a simple screensaver that just shows the current time ? I don't want FREE Digital Clock Screen Saver 2008 ShareWare. Just something simple, please. ____________________		17 21222 3521 21.5 155 205 984.800

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Posted on 04-20-10 09:13:32 AM

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Originally posted by Milly
3D maze

3D maze. That was one of the Windows 95 screensavers I absolutely loved. Back then, when I watched that screensaver I wished I could take control over the player character and play the maze by myself

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Posted on 04-20-10 05:08:49 PM

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I currently use the BSOD screensaver from the XScreenSaver collection. It simulates a bunch of kernel panics and fatal errors (or similar situations) from various operating systems.

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Posted on 04-20-10 05:21:04 PM

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Originally posted by Sanky
Right now, I use the, uhh, the "Lines" screensaver on Vista. (I don't know the name, it's in Czech. I swear, the next time I install Windows, I'll set the interface to English.)
On the matter, does anyone know of a simple screensaver that just shows the current time ? I don't want FREE Digital Clock Screen Saver 2008 ShareWare. Just something simple, please.

Can't the 3D Text screensaver do that?

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Posted on 04-20-10 05:22:24 PM

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	Originally posted by Onyx Originally posted by Sanky Right now, I use the, uhh, the "Lines" screensaver on Vista. (I don't know the name, it's in Czech. I swear, the next time I install Windows, I'll set the interface to English.) On the matter, does anyone know of a simple screensaver that just shows the current time ? I don't want FREE Digital Clock Screen Saver 2008 ShareWare. Just something simple, please. Can't the 3D Text screensaver do that? It's ugly 3D and moves from side to side, which is annoying. ____________________		17 21877 2866 36.1 158 207 958.432

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Posted on 04-20-10 09:54:56 PM

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I take it this was prompted by my recent thread and layout change?

Back when I had Windows 98, I loved to watch those old screensavers. My favorite was the 3D maze, which I've discovered can run at 1280x800 on my monitor if I disable fullscreen. (Yay counter-intuitive options?)

I also liked the Underwater screensaver, and that's where my layout comes from. I discovered recently it still works in Windows XP if you have the right DLLs.

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Posted on 04-20-10 10:23:24 PM

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Originally posted by Joe
I take it this was prompted by my recent thread and layout change?

Why, yes it was. (That and Anya's call for threads, anyway.)

I remember the 3D maze on some school computers. I know it started with a Windows Start button.

I had a teacher who had the date on that 3D text thing. It took me a while to figure out what it said from my seat though.

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Posted on 04-20-10 10:28:23 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
Originally posted by Joe
I take it this was prompted by my recent thread and layout change?

Why, yes it was. (That and Anya's call for threads, anyway.)

I remember the 3D maze on some school computers. I know it started with a Windows Start button.

I had a teacher who had the date on that 3D text thing. It took me a while to figure out what it said from my seat though.

I do recall seeing rats/mice in the maze also when I had the maze screensaver playing, I spotted those little critters a few times.

And I never really bothered with the 3D text thing much, though it was really nice to watch inthe good old days of windows.

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Posted on 04-20-10 11:01:56 PM

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I now have a Hatsune Miku screensaver.

Take THAT, society!

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Posted on 04-20-10 11:36:59 PM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
BooUrn's looks really interesting though, too bad it's probably hardcoded to specific things.

Not hard-coded per se, but you do need to be able to SSH into the server in question with a passwordless SSH key and be able to run tail on your log file...

It's here.

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Posted on 04-21-10 02:37:49 AM

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	I don't use a screensaver because I have an LCD ____________________ <@Bitmap> Be completely humble and gentle; <@Bitmap> And tell them to shut the fuck up

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Posted on 04-21-10 02:50:49 AM

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I still gotta find good interesting screensavers. I've been meaning to find one that has the melting screen effect, though I haven't been able to find a similar one at all. I would like to be able to get a hold of such a screensaver, and preferably a free one too.

Oh, and today one of the techs was fooling around with one of the screensavers that come with windows 7 and I guess there was a bsod snapshot stored as part of a pictures slideshow, and all of a sudden one of the other techs sees that bsod, only to see it change into something else, it was so funny I thought.

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