From: sdh@fishmonger.nouucp (Scott D. Heavner) Subject: xearth: new Linux binary (don't use the last one) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 01:10:12 GMT
After a report from Bill Gribble about a memory leak in the
xearth binary I uploaded Friday, I decided to re-invent the patch and
try and figure out where the hole was. Believe it or not, it wasn't in
the kernel!!!!
Anyhow xearth-b1_1.tgz should replace xearth-bin.tgz. The patch
is included in the binary this time and was posted to comp.windows.x.apps at the
same time as this post.
See my previous post for a description of the program. Briefly, it
draws the earth in the root window and colors half of it black (well shades it
darker). This is to illustrate what we call night and really does help
to improve your understanding of time zones aside from looking really cool
(and eating 85% of your CPU). Remember to nice it if you're going to
leave it up for any extended period of time.
Scott
sdh@po.cwru.edu
P.S. -- my nice appears to be broken which means yours might be too (then again,
I didn't install SLS, so probably not). My nice will spawn the process,
but doesn't change it's niceness; I have to use top to do that.
P.P.S -- I've moved the fjords out of Finland. Sorry all, but I'm just another
(semi)ignorant and easily confused American, but I'd be happy to come
work in any English or French speaking country that has an open
biomechanics or robotics position for a recent graduate. Broaden
the mind, right? (followups to misc.jobs.misc).