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From: Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:41:03
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0601301830420.20374@adonis.stupendoussteve.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question) by Simon Hogg
1 It takes a lot longer than 8-10 minutes, I don't think their download
2 server is very quick, or something like that. Wait a while and it will
3 actually start working (and if you have it selected in kscreensaver or
4 xscreensaver, you shouldn't need to configure anything).
5
6 On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Simon Hogg wrote:
7
8 > On 1/27/06, Bill Roberts <billbalt@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
9 >
10 > On 20:19 Fri 27 Jan , Ian wrote:
11 > > Hey everyone
12 > > I came across this app and and having issues getting it to work.
13 > > I was told to leave it running so it could do a download. After 8-10
14 > > minutes, nothing came up. Is there any way I can verify what its
15 > > doing? Is this what Im supposed to do?
16 >
17 > I played with this a couple of years ago. It is a applet for xscreensaver,
18 > I don't recall the detail of configuring it, but it wasn't too difficult.
19 > But it does chew up alot of bandwidth, and the results were less than
20 > spectacular. I ended up unmerging it.
21 >
22 > Good luck
23 >
24 > Bill Roberts
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26
27 IIRC the program you're trying to remember is xscreensaver-demo
28
29 HTH,
30
31 Simon
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