I love it when Linux blanks my screen 168 plus 163

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Your logic is apparantly inverted, so by "sloppy programming" you must mean efficient programming.

Blanking is one thing, powering off is another. Which do you mean, or do you even know?

So, what you are saying is that Windows polls according to the system timer as opposed to using the displayed time, by measuring ticks instead of tocks or something like that, right?

So, whatever time period is specified between timeouts Windows has to convert from tocks to ticks and then evaluate whether the specified number of ticks have pbutted ever so often? And continuously do this, reset the timeout counter and repeating the operation every time an input event is received? Can you imagine the amount of code and overhead involved in such a procedure?

Whereas Linux, according to you, simply has to do a simple addition and check. You tell me, which is more efficient? Is it any wonder Windows is the overpriced, slow, buggy, bloated POS it is when they have convoluted methods to conduct simple operations like this.

You're so lame.

-- rapskat - 03:27:34 up 2 days, 23:37, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.44, 0.71 If somebody says "Electronic Pearl Harbor" I swear I will puke. -- Dennis McGrath