SKY HD Screensaver

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:04

all the CPUs on the network work together to create new (random) patterns which are then downloaded. ie, they change.

p4radox · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:06

Is this sheep thing constantly downloading then?

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:08

Is this thing going to eat my bandwidth then.

I've only got 50GB/month.

Zip · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:32

Tommy B said:
Is this thing going to eat my bandwidth then.

I've only got 50GB/month.

Oi! Stop complaining, Ive only got 10GB a month

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:31

depends on how long your PC is in screensaver for i guess.

raz0rr · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:47

Zip said:
Oi! Stop complaining, Ive only got 10GB a month

I don't have a bandwidth limit

Does the electric sheep screensaver tax the graphics card at all?
It's just that when I used flurry, it was equivalent to running the ATiTool cube in heatup mode, which made the room heat up like an oven.

Berserker · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:57

Wouldn't mind running this myself, but a huge bandwidth hog is a no-no. Especially as it'll be on the laptop, which gets used mostly at work.

DiG · 1 Oct 2006 at 18:57

Electric Sheep doesn't seem to be HD though, it seems from the website that its's 640x480 and it looks like it on my moniter, very impressive but certainly not HD!

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 19:27

well, they're 4 second long 640x480 mpg files. if they were in HD then they'd be like 20MB each.

as it stands they're a little on the chunky side at 4.5MB each

Tobes · 1 Oct 2006 at 20:34

So when does it change. I got some crappy hippy Hindu (lol) sheep and I want it change

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:39

the longer you leave it, the more sheep you will have in your flock.

WotDa · 2 Oct 2006 at 00:58

I left it going for a bit whilst playing the 360 earlier, managed to get 1 sheep before the input from my PC turned off, which is 20 minutes.

At this rate, Flurry is using more of my PC whilst saving the screen so wins. Cos I just love the sound two 7600GT's make.

Tobes · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:05

WotDa said:
I left it going for a bit whilst playing the 360 earlier, managed to get 1 sheep before the input from my PC turned off, which is 20 minutes.

At this rate, Flurry is using more of my PC whilst saving the screen so wins. Cos I just love the sound two 7600GT's make.

flurry ***.

It does a change for 3 seconds then goes back to this crap hippy thing. Vote system is crap... eats bandwidth. Flurry is better

Tommy B · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:10

Anyone know where it stores the MPG files it downloads?

Berserker · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:13

In whatever you told it was the cache directory.

Tommy B · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:14

D:\WINDOWS\system32\electricsheep-cache\torrent\

I can't play them with VLC or WMP though. Strange.

Thanks!

Oh - and what button do you press to vote for a good sheep, or a bad one?

Berserker · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:27

Nope, the torrent files are BitTorrent. Look in the directory above.

PS - I can't play them either.