Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Finishing up YAIP (Yet Another Input Handler), Need info. Message-ID: <8805120845.AA03658@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 12 May 88 08:45:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 19 > How about a screen dimmer? To do this generally would be pretty > hard (how do you dim a HAM image), but it'd be easy to instead of I thought of that, but after seeing burn-in on many an office CRT, I decided that if the guy leaves his computer for that long a period of time, it would be better to blank the screen. My best solution is actually on an IBM-PC (don't laugh!) This PC is used as a database storage and retrieval system for a telemetry system and thus is left on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. To prevent employees from thinking the machine is off, I wrote a screen saver which 'pong'd the date and time around the (blank) screen. P.S. You might wonder about the harddrive. We've got a Bernoulli (sp) Box connected to it ... 80 Meg Winchester + two 20 Meg cartridges. The Winchester has been ON 24 hours a day for the last two years! ok .. subtract maybe a week total for maintenance. No power failures though, the whole system is running under a UPS. -Matt