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PuddingKnife
June 10th, 2010, 10:32 PM
The screen savers for Ubuntu are kind of blah

Electric Sheep is amazing. It should come by default in Ubuntu, dontcha think?
magmon
June 10th, 2010, 10:34 PM
I've never heard of electric sheep o.O, but this is coming from the guy who uses the blank screen for his screen saver xD.
juancarlospaco
June 10th, 2010, 10:35 PM
Not by default it eats bandwidth, can be expensive on some ISP (3G and such).
BoneKracker
June 10th, 2010, 10:35 PM
Just what we need -- another program that does nothing but contribute to global warming and subject your computer to possible abuse. :p
PuddingKnife
June 10th, 2010, 10:36 PM
I've never heard of electric sheep o.O, but this is coming from the guy who uses the blank screen for his screen saver xD.


Oh, right on. Here it is on the youtubes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e7lPYTIaRQ&feature=related
ve4cib
June 10th, 2010, 10:36 PM
I agree that it's awesome, but I don't think it should be included by default. The sheep cache can use up a lot of HD space, and because gnome-screensaver (as of Jaunty anyway -- not sure about Lucid) doesn't allow extensive configuration of the screensaver settings a lot of potential problems could arise (like bandwidth issues, memory usage, etc, etc...).
BoneKracker
June 10th, 2010, 10:50 PM
... the guy who uses the blank screen for his screen saver ...

high five \o

Screen savers are so 1990.
PuddingKnife
June 10th, 2010, 10:56 PM
Im stuck in the past! I like to watch it when music plays.

O well. Maybe its not a tenable suggestion. But I still love it.
BoneKracker
June 10th, 2010, 11:03 PM
Im stuck in the past! I like to watch it when music plays.

MC Hammer? :p
PuddingKnife
June 10th, 2010, 11:05 PM
MC Hammer? :p


No, I have taste.
Frogs Hair
June 10th, 2010, 11:14 PM
I thought the Electric Sheep were a rock band.:guitar:
Daycare
June 10th, 2010, 11:30 PM
Oh, so it's not a screen saver of sheep dancing round my monitor?
cariboo
June 11th, 2010, 12:25 AM
Oh, so it's not a screen saver of sheep dancing round my monitor?

That was totally different program from the early windows era.

update It's still around:

eSheep (http://www.slinkycity.com/windows-desktop-sheep.html)
BoneKracker
June 11th, 2010, 12:33 AM
Screen savers, disk defragmentation, and antivirus software: three compulsive behavioral disorders inflicted upon the world by Microsoft.
PuddingKnife
June 11th, 2010, 12:38 AM
Youre persistent, I'll give you that.
BoneKracker
June 11th, 2010, 12:50 AM
Youre persistent, I'll give you that.

Sorry. :)

(Oh, and I forgot the Vulcan Neck Pinch a.k.a. Three-Finger Salute a.k.a. Ctrl+Alt+Delete.)