[Westwales] blue screen of death screen saver

Colin Sauze cjs0 at aber.ac.uk
Wed Aug 11 22:49:51 BST 2004


Telsa Gwynne wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:53:07PM +0100 or thereabouts, Colin Sauze wrote:
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>>While we are being all nostalgic,
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>>I remember some older Linux distros (like redhat 5.2) shipping with a 
>>screen saver which showed various crash screens from all kinds of 
>>different platforms including the windows blue screen of death. However 
>>looking around my boxes all running fairly modern linux distros I can't 
>>seem to find it anywhere, and a google search hasn't revealed anything.
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>That is definitely still around. It was the screensaver running
>when I returned to my laptop recently, causing me mild panic.
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>>Anybody know where I can find a copy of this screen saver?
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>xscreensaver :) It's the bsod one, which has a man page under
>"man 1 bsod". 
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>Do read the bugs section, btw..
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ok, it seems that mandrake isn't displaying all the xscreensaver's that 
are there, when I launch xscreensaver directly I get a load more.





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