Two Stop Bits | A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer

qingcharles 131 days ago
Damn, now I wonder how many servers I left headless in data centers with 3D Pipes running and chewing up the CPU on software rendering.
- bmonkey325 131 days ago
  What you measure, you optimize. I got pinched by windows power management and sleep one time. After that all production equipment would be set to have no sleep mode for disks or screen. Losing a couple of hours across our cluster was costly.
  Today I think you can turn off the screen without running code. NT4 and windows 2000 not so much.
bmonkey325 131 days ago
If you are curious to see this screen saver. There was a version programmed for the browser :
https://1j01.github.io/pipes/