[ale] OS Wars the Series

[Christopher S. Adams]

i got nt to bluescreen by moving the mouse during the ie4 installation :(

Chris

-----Original Message-----
 From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
To: Jim Kinney <jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu>
Cc: Clay Lawrence <servo at bellsouth.net>; ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] OS Wars the Series


>Jim Kinney enscribed thusly:
>> I get the "Blue Screen of Death" every time I leave my Linux box alone
for
>> more than 20 minutes. It's my screen saver in Gnome!! Bwahahaha!!!
>
> Yeah...  I saw that option in xscreensaver.  That's just evil.  It's
>bad enough when I run the "pipes" screen saver on "Chaos" where I'm running
>the latest Samba on (the one that acts as a PDC and all the NT boxes think
>it's king god NT) and then the NT weenies find out it's really Linux in
>wolve's clothing...  :-)  Best thing was when the VP of Engineering was
>watching me and I had VMWare up and running full screen (looks like I had
>jumped ship and was on the NT bandwagon - NOT) on Chaos and the friggen
>NT decided to lock up on me.  I just went to another screen and killed
>the VMWare window without loosing any of my Linux stuff.  :-)
>
> Having a BSoD screen saver would really confuse the bejesus out
>of everyone.  "HEY, chaos has blue-screened!  But I can still get to it?
>How do you get NT to do that?"
>
>> James Kinney M.S.Physics jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
>> Educational Technology Specialist 404-727-4734
>> Department of Physics Emory University http://teller.physics.emory.edu
>
> Mike
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