Re: [NTLK] Seti

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 12:10:40 PDT


On Apr 20, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:56:17AM -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:37 AM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> "Running as a screen saver" means it's got all the pretty
>>> graphics-drawing sucking up 65% of the cycles spent on it.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Not necessarily, it has a setting to go blank. Mine does so after 10
>> minutes.
>
> It's been a couple of versions since I played with the Mac version, but
> at that point, it still did the drawing calculations to somewhere,
> just let the monitor blank and go into power-save mode if the monitor
> was
> capable of it.

Wow, that is super dumb... No wonder I don't see any speed up...

Marty

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