cayz@udel.edu (James Cayz) (11/07/90)
Hi All, Has anyone thought of the consequences of _not_ being able to turn the brightness all the way down??? "When is this a problem?" you might ask... I currently have a Mac Plus running as an AppleShare server (yes, I know, slightly crazy). Obeying Apple very carefully, I have 0 (no) inits running, ie, screen savers. That means that this very meaningful AS screen is visible, until I crank the darkness down. Saves burning that "Hand & Tray" into my screen, since it is up _continously_ (since 1987). If I go to a Classic, I'll burn my screen up real fast... Is there maybe a "backdoor" to a) turn it all the way down and b) with a keyboard FKEY to turn it back up? Or are we not supposed to use the lowest cost machines as our server machines (try explaining to someone that the server gets the IIsi, you'll have to do w/ a Classic... Riiiiiight). And since I need another server to do mail real soon.... Any solutions??? (If you suggest a different machine, be prepared to write me a check!!!). Thanx James Cayz |James Cayz can be found via: USPS: Educational Technology Laboratory |EMAIL Internet: cayz@louie.udel.edu : 203 Willard Hall Education Building |PHONE: +1 302 451-6307 : University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716
stanbach@Apple.COM (Francis Stanbach) (11/07/90)
When I wrote the Brightness Control Panel I worried about all of these issues. It turns out that the screen is not protected that much more by going from mostly dark to dark. Apple doesn't care what you use a Macintosh for as long as you use one. :+) A Classic makes a great file server(shameless plug). The Brightness Control Panel calls the .screen driver. You can make a hack to call it directly, but It may change and your thing will break. You have been warned. I think Apple should make screen savers part of system software. Not fancy ones, just a basic one. Francis -- wmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm Francis Stanbach Finder Engineer Apple Computer, Inc. wmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwmwm
ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) (11/07/90)
In article <35597@nigel.ee.udel.edu> cayz@udel.edu (James Cayz) writes: > >Hi All, > > Has anyone thought of the consequences of _not_ being able to turn the >brightness all the way down??? "When is this a problem?" you might ask... >running, ie, screen savers. That means that this very meaningful AS screen is >visible, until I crank the darkness down. Saves burning that "Hand & Tray" >into my screen, since it is up _continously_ (since 1987). If I go to a >Classic, I'll burn my screen up real fast... > I think you could easily get away with running Auto-Black, which I assume still runs fine on the Classic to bypass the minimal dimming of the Brightness CDEV. However the Classic I saw when I dimmed it to the Max, the intensity was so low, that burn in even with running Appleshare continiously would take one heck of a long time.. -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM
macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) (11/07/90)
In article <35597@nigel.ee.udel.edu> cayz@udel.edu (James Cayz) writes: >cost machines as our server machines (try explaining to someone that the server >gets the IIsi, you'll have to do w/ a Classic... Riiiiiight). And since I >need another server to do mail real soon.... I don't know... We've been running Appleshares here at the U. of Pittsburgh for years with loads of two-floppy Pluses "looking up to" a Mac II, most of *our* users wouldn't even know the difference, though :-). I personally would LOVE to have a Classic hooked up to our server, but alas we were only granted an SE. What can you do? Dennis Lippert - macman@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
careyk@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Carey Kinoshita) (11/08/90)
In article <11145@goofy.Apple.COM> stanbach@Apple.COM (Francis Stanbach) writes: >It turns out that the screen is not protected that much more >by going from mostly dark to dark. > >Apple doesn't care what you use a >Macintosh for as long as you use one. :+) >A Classic makes a great file server(shameless plug). > I think that the software controlled screen brightness is a benefit for the Mac Class and not another attempt by Apple to save of manufacturing costs. When I upgraded from a Mac 512KE to a Mac II, one of the features I like was the ability of screen savers to be able to dim the screen of the Apple Color RGB monitor. Back on my Mac 512KE I used to have all kinds of problems with screen savers bombing every so often. Now, I don't have to worry about my Macintosh crashing anytime the screen saver goes on. And now Mac Classic owner's don't have to worry, too. P.S. I am currently using After Dark 2.0 and have no problem when using the dimmer module to blank out my screen, but anytime I try to use one of those fancy module's like Fish! my Mac II would bomb when coming out of the screen saver especially when running Word 4.0. hadn't g