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Network Aware Screensavers?

Posted by Cliff on from the wasting-cycles-for-visual-entertainment dept.

borgquite asks: "Does anyone know of any network aware screensavers? I am running a school network and would love to be able to have a screensaver where the other computers communicate with each other in some way - for example, if you could have a marquee where the message gets passed from screen to screen. The best I can find is n 0 time, but is there anything else a bit more exciting?"

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  1. Re:Environment, by Kaeru+the+Frog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here! Here!

    My house is right next to the local whale based power plant and every time they throw another whale in the fire it creates a really awful smell. I suggest we get rid of all of the power plants that burn whales and use only ones that burn dolphins and baby seals. They are much easier on the air.

  2. Re:Killjoys by BRTB · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, no, no! Stress-testing the campus network is a task reserved for such wonderful diagnostic tools as... Unreal Tournament Network Analyzer, EthernetQuake 3, with maybe a little Return to Castle Wolfenrouter mixed in.

    >=]

  3. mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    However, there is not yet a windows version...

  4. I have truly wonderful source for this... by malakai · · Score: 4, Funny

    however this margin is too small to contain it.

    -malakai

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    -Malakai
    A Dragon Lives in my Garage
  5. Blinkeneye by FunkyRat · · Score: 5, Funny

    This reminds me of the old computer folklore story. I've heard two versions of it, one occurring at MIT, and one occurring at Georgia Tech. If anybody out there knows the true origin of this story I'd appreciate knowing.

    The story associated with MIT goes that an unknown prankster programmed the mainframe to pick a random unused terminal in one of the computer labs, display a large eye on the screen, look left and right, wink and then disappear only to reappear on yet another unused terminal in the room. Apparently this caused quite a panic among the janitors at the time who thought the computer was watching them.

    The story associated with Georgia Tech goes that late one night (or early one morning depending on how you look at it), a sleepy eyed operator was running the nightly backups. As he watched the status lines scroll by, a large (CBS logo style) eye appears on screen, winks and then disappears leaving only the status messages scrolling.