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| Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver Visualizes Sleeping Computers |
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posted by Editor on Monday June 07, @07:49PM
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The Electric Sheep distributed screen saver creates a visualization of sleeping computers across the Internet. When the screen saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears. The screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Every fifteen minutes, a new sheep is 'born' and distributed to all participating clients for display. Each sheep is shown as an animated fractal flame. Here is a description of how the system works. The screen saver runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and binaries can be downloaded here (the code is open source under the GPL and can be downloaded here).
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 09, @04:31AM EST (#1)
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I can't seem to download the first "sheep". The program has been running for a whole night and I still have nothing.
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 09, @05:18PM EST (#2)
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I have had the same experience on some computers, while others have worked fine. It seems to only be a problem under windows, and only on older machines... but I could be wrong. Reinstalling never improved things, perhaps there is some mpeg decoding library missing? Try contacting electricsheep.org to submit a bug at the very least.
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 10, @12:37PM EST (#3)
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Waiting for a long time (20 minutes about... I spent the time with my sons ;-) magically the first "sheep" downloaded (I have a PC with Win2000 server). The problem is another: I don't understand the deep meaning of the waves on the screen.
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19, @05:13AM EST (#5)
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Cialis
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15, @10:24AM EST (#4)
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Even i can't download it.
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