On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:27PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:28, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > > Ah, the beauty of Linux! :) > > The beauty of X, actually. You'll find this on any X system, provided > all of the X clients are capable of dealing with odd resolutions > properly. Fortunately, they do seem to. True. But I use Linux, so... *shrug* :\ > > BTW, is the refresh rate what causes the flicker if I run certain > > screensavers, do you think? I've often wondered that. > > Usually, it's a software problem; the screensaver should be using double > buffering, but isn't. > > <long-winded-description of="double buffering"> <snip> > </long-winded-description> Fascinating. Seriously. Hmm, that explains a lot... > > BTW, tomorrow is the computer club meeting, when we start getting > > ready to set up the cluster-- hopefully we won't have any snow. :) > > Have fun! Well, Thursday was supposed to be the meeting but the vice president couldn't come, so it's been postponed again-- it'll (maybe, hopefully) be Tuesday. *sigh* But I stayed and started installing Debian on one of the nodes-- the only thing was, I couldn't figure out what the NIC was and what driver it needed. That was after I replaced the bad root floppy (I'm doing a floppy/internet install, that's why I needed the network card), and had to figure out how to partition the HD. *sigh* Hopefully, everything will work out better Tues. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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