OpenGL screen savers on server operating systems - which bright spark came
up with that?

I preferred the Netware "snake" that got bigger as the system utilization
went up.

On 10 November 2010 21:44, Malcolm Reitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> We just apply the screensaver/background GPOs to our workstations OU; the
> servers get different policies which simply run the “blank” screensaver. I
> learned to be very careful with server screensavers in the NT 4.0 days when
> everyone wanted to run that cool 3-D Pipes screensaver and then wondered why
> the servers ran so slowly...
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> -Malcolm
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> *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2010 14:59
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?
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> Point out to management that if your power settings don't turn off your
> monitors in a very short time frame, then your systems suck up power which
> sucks down money.  Also, if I recall, such a GPO would affect everything
> which means any virtualized systems will now be trying to run a screen savor
> as well.
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> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Don Guyer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> As long as the location and image name stays the same, it will.
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> Don Guyer
> Systems Engineer - Information Services
> Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
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> Direct: (610) 993-3299
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]]
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:09 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?
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> Malcolm, personally I agree with not getting too creative, but equally it's
> good to know the options.
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> I'll try some things when I'm back in the office (no access to GPO stuff
> right now) but I'm hoping that if you point wallpaper to
> \\server\share\wallpaper.jpg (for example) that if someone updates
> wallpaper.jpg, at some point (when the GPO refreshes?) Windows has the sense
> to re-read the JPG and reload the replaced image?
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