Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:9466 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:9916 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!tlee From: tlee@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON? Message-ID: <13346@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 14:33:31 GMT References: <1991May24.033650.15836@cbnewsc.att.com> <20114@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <1991May25.151636.679@monu0.cc.monas <1991Jun4.210249.1190@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <91156.110456GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <1991Jun6.003043.28563@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 25 In article <1991Jun6.003043.28563@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au> anthony@gucis.sct.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes: >GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes: >>On the point of screen blankers. We have here a little network >>of ps2/s running aix (ibm's version of unix) and they too have >>a screen blanker installed under x-windows. But.... the screen >>'blanker' displays a WHITE screen with a moving black X on it ||| >>What's the point ? Burning in the screen as hard as you can >>while the user isn't there ????? Someone who can explain this ? >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Only static (unchanging) displays burn in the screen as the same pixels >would always be on. A moving display uses different pixels and only a small >number normally, thus the image is not `burned' into the screen. But wouldn't it be MUCH MUCH BETTER to make a screen saver with BLACK BACK GROUND with a WHITE OBJECT MOVING?? When u display white u use more energy to do that rather than displaying a BLACK image (OR BACKGROUND).... But I guess THE IBM GUYS DON'T CARE ABOUT MONITOR's as much as they care about MONEY...and profits,,... -tim -- ================================================================================ || tlee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | "All we are saying... | THIS SPACE || || tlee@donald.wslab.hawaii.edu | is give peace a chance..." | FOR RENT... || || tlee@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu | -John Lennon - Dec 8, 1980.| inquire within ||