“Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds”

Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds (Screenshot by the mighty MAC.)

This here rig seems to have two sleep-functions and a screen-saver.
—1) One sleep-function, the monitor, I can’t control. It seems to be set at five minutes, and is integral to the monitor. (Although I could override it [earlier] with a ‘pyooter-monitor sleep — which is currently set at eight minutes.)
I.e. if nothing new goes to it for five minutes, the monitor goes to sleep: a blank (black) screen.
—2) The other sleep-function is the ‘pyooter itself. I can set that; and it’s currently set at eight minutes. The rig goes to sleep if nothing happens for eight minutes — the hard-drive stops spinning.
What happened in the past is the monitor went to sleep well before the ‘pyooter.
Walk away more than five minutes, and the monitor went to sleep. Apparently what was going on was sufficient to keep the rig awake another three minutes; but nothing changing on the display slept the monitor.
If eight minutes passed with no apps on it, just OS-X, the rig went to sleep; a possible hairball because it might not wake back up.
Gnagy, the ‘pyooter-guru at the mighty Mezz, told me this was endemic to OS-X machines.
Ho-hum; just reboot (about 30 seconds), in which case I get a message about a screwed-up ‘pyooter clock until it gets its time-signal from Boulder.
OS-X also has a screen-saver (pictured) which I call “Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds,” an old Beatles song.br>“Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds” is one of many OS-X screen-savers, but I think their best one.
Don’t know as screen-savers are needed any more.
Monitors nowadays can withstand a constant image without burning it into the screen phosphors.
I’m not even sure current flat-screen monitor technology uses phosphors.
“Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds” was set to kick in at 15 minutes, so I hardly ever saw it.
The monitor would go to sleep before it kicked in, so I only saw it if the monitor had been getting a continuous (“refreshing”) feed.
Thereby not going to sleep.
I have since reset “Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds” to kick in at three minutes, which is before the monitor goes to sleep.
And now the monitor no longer goes to sleep, since “Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds” is a continuous (“refreshing”) feed.
Or is it?
I don’t know.........
Mysteries are taking place that don’t effect me personally, so I don’t care.

RE: “Mighty MAC.....” —All my siblings use Windows PCs, but I use an Apple MacIntosh, so am therefore reprehensible and stupid.

“Rig” is my computer system. “‘Pyooter” is computer. “Apps” is computer software applications.

“OS-X” is Apple’s current personal-computer operating software (OS-10). There were earlier operating systems, e.g. 8.5, 8.6 and 9.2, and I used the last two for some time; first 8.6 and then 9.2. But I switched to OS-X a few years ago.

The “mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over three years ago. Best job I ever had. Their head of Information-Technology (“‘pyooter-guru”) is Dan Gnagy (“NAG-eee”).

RE: “Gets its time-signal from Boulder......” —My computer gets a signal of the exact time from the atomic clock at Boulder, CO. Cellphones do this too. The time-signal is beamed to a satellite, and they get it from that (although indirectly).

Earlier cathode-ray monitors (essentially the same as TV displays) used “phosphors” on the display screen to light up when the cathode-ray hit. Those phosphors could stay lit beyond when the cathode-ray hit — burn in. A “ghost-image” could remain.

A “continuous (‘refreshing’) feed” is one that continuosly updates — “refreshes.” As opposed to a constant signal of the same feed.