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Create an auto-updating desktop image
Authored by: zacht on Jul 14, '03 11:21:41AM

This hint is Totally Sweet. Except... what if the download fails? Curl is supposed to be very sophisticated (or so i've heard), but will the perl script and the Desktop picture thing be OK? Will the desktop picture stay the same or go blank? Will there be lots of network attempts? (Or system log "spamming"?)

The reason I ask is that my laptop is often not connected to a network and I'd hate to have my computer freeze up or "stutter" every five minutes... And if it goes into "retry every thirty seconds" mode, or something like that, it would be horrible.

I guess I could try it and find out. But hopefully someone can reassure me?...

zach



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Create an auto-updating desktop image
Authored by: Mikey-San on Jul 14, '03 03:54:03PM

Well, curl will not stop your machine from doing anything. The download will just fail, a la reachinga 404 error with a Web browser.



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