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Date:	Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:45:20 -0800
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Doodle's Screen Saver...?

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--- Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

> Maybe someone here can answer a question about
> Doodle's Screen=20
> Saver that comes with eCS. Does such a program, when
> activated=20
> and set up properly, actually "turn down" the
> Monitor=20
> circuitry so that it uses minimum power? I have mine
> set to=20
> display a blank page. How can the monitor use less
> power if it=20
> is showing a bouncing ball or some such?
>=20
> Martin Rosenfeld

Martin,

I see that no one has answered this (I get that around
here a lot !), and I don't really know the answer for
sure, but I have a good hunch. The monitor using less
power is probably synonymous with "Sleep Mode" --
ergo, a hardware thing, and more the province of APM
than of any screen saver. My CRT monitor gets shut
down by Windoze, which is to say it partially but not
completely turns off. The indicator light goes from
Green to Amber. From there, it can come back to full
ON more quickly than if turned On from being Off Cold.
I'm not sure if the eCS APM works the same way, but I
would guess so. To date, I have only had the
automatic shutdown going in *one* of the eCS 2.0
Betas, and that hard drive was not mounted for very
long. The Win-like shutdown must have gotten
installed by default, but I don't know why I did not
find it so for the other releases I did test installs
with. Too limited a sample, though, in my case.

HTH.

Jordan

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