Screen Saver Not Funny
Randall J. Berry
lrx.lists at verizon.net
Tue Sep 20 23:54:36 UTC 2005
Randall J. Berry wrote:
>Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:43, Tom Lettington wrote:
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>>>FC4 has a screen saver that replicates the scrolling text of a system
>>>that has just experienced a kernel panic crash. The first and second
>>>time I saw this I panicked! I almost went into reinstall system
>>>mode, or even worse, start buying new hardware.
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>>>This is not amusing ! I'm now going to disable screen saver and just
>>>power down the monitor.
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>>It is a lot funnier after you realize that the crash screens are
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>>from other operating systems, not Linux...
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> I too nearly freaked out when I saw this one for the first time.
>I was letting some updates roll while I slept. I awoke in the middle of
>the night and still half in a daze I noticed it looked like the system
>had crashed!
>I lept out of bed and freaked out! I soon realized the joke was on me
>once I grabbed the mouse and the desktop came back to normal.
>I just took a deep breath and I was relieved the updates took well.
>Needless to say I no longer use the *Random* screen saver option any
>longer! lol
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es Mikesell wrote:
>>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:43, Tom Lettington wrote:
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>>>>FC4 has a screen saver that replicates the scrolling text of a system
>>>>that has just experienced a kernel panic crash. The first and second
>>>>time I saw this I panicked! I almost went into reinstall system
>>>>mode, or even worse, start buying new hardware.
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>>>>This is not amusing ! I'm now going to disable screen saver and just
>>>>power down the monitor.
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>>It is a lot funnier after you realize that the crash screens are
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>from other operating systems, not Linux...
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I too nearly freaked out when I saw this one for the first time.
I was letting some updates roll while I slept. I awoke in the middle of
the night and still half in a daze I noticed it looked like the system
had crashed!
I lept out of bed and freaked out! I soon realized the joke was on me
once I grabbed the mouse and the desktop came back to normal.
I just took a deep breath and I was relieved the updates took well.
Needless to say I no longer use the *Random* screen saver option anymore! lol
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