Re: [Plug] XFree locks up local console

["Nicolai Rosen" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Now as the common belief goes (or at least what I was taught), screensavers 
were invented in order to save your screen from screen burn. And yet, this 
is completely illogical, as while you're working you have the same images on 
the screen for possibly hours at a time and that causes no visible damage 
even over a relatively long period of time. Now my question is this:
Originally were screens built so that they got burned far more easily (& why 
did they/why don't newer ones), and if not, then was the sole purpose of the 
screensaver eye candy to get people to buy Windows?

> I agree.  My opinion is that a screensaver is a waste of good CPU cycles.
> Personally, I just turn the monitor off when I'm not using the computer 
> (and
> let the computer run most of the time).  Of course, it's my own *personal*
> personal computer, with me being one of only two people that 
> (theoretically)
> have physical access to it.  Of course, in a different setting, this might
> be unacceptable without some other security measures.
>
> Bill

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