I can remember logging on to servers via dial-in PCAnywhere (yes! those were the days!) to resolve a support call of "system slow" and catching sight of that damn rat in the Windows maze screen saver just before the screen refreshed. Needless to say those were short case closures.
Before any flames me, these were Windows 95 or 98 PCs acting as standalone database systems. I know the maze screen saver didn't appear on Windows NT Servers 2008/6/30 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The pipe screensaver was a pig, but the server ran just fine once you > had installed 1+ gb of RAM. > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, John Hornbuckle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That stupid pipe screen saver would slow servers to a crawl. I can > remember working trying to figure out why network performance for a client > would periodically choke, and after a bit of digging I figured out that the > screen saver on the server was the cause. > > > > Good times. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:20 PM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Update: Exchange on VM > > > > The 90's seem like the wild west of computers to me. No firewalls, open > networks, 1112-111111 for the install key, everyone on by default, seeing 3d > pipes screen savers on screen savers. > > > > We are so much more conservative and under control now. > > > > ~Kevinm WLKMMAS > > powered by 3Sharp, Always WLKMMAS What is your Zombie Plan? > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
