European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes computers tuesday november 8,1994 screens wasting Money millions spent on unneeded software by Jack Warner Cox news service while i have made every Effort to keep religion out of these computer discussions the time has come to determine whether your screen is indeed of saving. A very considerable part of the software Industry is convinced of it,.and is cranking out screen savers Day and night. These Little programs take Over your Monitor when there has been no input for a specified amount of time and put Active and often extremely Complex images of the screen. The theory is that if you leave your Monitor on for Long periods of Tim with the same image on it the windows desktop for instance this image will eventually be burned indelibly into the screen. This is a fact. However there is often considerable difference Between a fact and the truth. The truth is that your Monitor is unlikely to last Long enough for this to happen. Given this and the fact that windows comes with a decent selection of screen savers the Market for these things i amazing. Scarcely a week goes by that some publisher does t Send me a disk of them. Flying toasters Aren t it anymore now you can get scenes fro Star wars Star trek and Jurassic Park and heaven knows what else. I can Only assume that screen savers have become some kind of High tech Macho thing my screen Saver i prettier or weirder or dumber or whatever than yours. After All How much time do you think you would spend looking at your screen Saver the thing activates after you be left the keyboard alone for a Given number of minutes presumably you have left the area. When you come Back you re going to tap the keyboard or the mouse and get Back to work or to play or whatever. If this sort of thing makes you feel Good then who am i to object on the other hand you can get a pretty Nice game for what you will pay for a lot of screen savers another concern is windows wallpaper which is almost As big an Industry As screen savers. Windows wallpaper of course is the background behind the windows desktop. Windows comes with a considerable selection of wallpaper too. Fancy wallpaper is a drag on you system. Not much perhaps but it takes More memory and More processor Power to keep a Degas painting in place than it does a solid Blue background. So you figure How you want to use All that Power in your machine. Frankly aside from the wallpaper s toll on Power i be always found myself irritated when i throw a Lovely image on the screen Only to have it largely obscured by the desktop. What s the Point in All that foliage when you can t even see the Gorilla in the Middle of it i d suggest you open up the windows control panel select desktop and fool around with the screen savers an wallpaper therein before you go out and spend Money for fancier ones. Computer users May enjoy screen savers from programs such As Star trek but their monitors Are unlikely to get burned without hem. Tomb rep pens Arn i d d is Pute Hebron West Bank a de spite criticism of new Security measures the Tomb of the patriarchs reopened Early monday 8 /2 months after a jewish settler machine gunned 29 muslims a they Knelt in prayer. Both jews and muslims have denounced the measures which separate the religions. The Tomb now has separate bathrooms and walkways outside the shrine which has been equipped wit Metal detectors electronic Gates and television cameras. No protesters were on hand As about 15 jews filed in to Pray about 4 30 . Amid a heavy military presence. Few muslims were present. Islamic Funda mentalist groups had called for a Boycott of pre Dawn prayers Falih Rasebe a shop owner said some muslims were afraid to come. Others re fused to go because they Don t like the Security measures. He said he was stopped by Soldier three palestinians walk up Steps leading to the Tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron on he said he. S d b soldiers sunday a Day before it opened under tight Security measures. The nearby sign Indi three times while walking the one Block catch a Security Hole or pit where suspicious objects Are exploded. From his Home to the site. /. S. Korea ends 49-year ban on trading with North Yasser Arafat head of the palestinian self Rule authority issued a statement saying that restructuring the building Vio lated the israeli Plo peace treaty. We consider the Ibrahimi mosque a holy place for muslims and we do not accept division or separation he said. We see this separation As a provocation that will Lead to increasing tension be tween muslims and  it is not a House of worship  s a House of politics said Abdel Rauf Al Mut Hassib who lives across the  reopening followed a vote sunday by Israel s Cabinet to test the new Security measures by opening the Tomb for a few Days this week. Both sides will be limited to 200worshipers. If things go Well the Tomb will remain open after nov. 15, and the numbers will increase. Each Faith has one Entrance from the out Side with other doors As Well As Interior por tals sealed with huge Iron sheets. Each Side will have exclusive use of the building during10 religious holidays during the year. Seoul South Korea a president Kim Young Sam lifted a nearly half Century ban monday on direct Trade and investment in North Korea South Korea s communist archrival. A Kim said the major policy change for the divided korean Peninsula was made possible by a recent agreement brokered by the United states to freeze the North s feared nuclear program. The time has come to sincerely study and push South North economic cooperation Kim said in a speech to business leaders televised live nationwide. For years South Korea had said it could improve economic and political relations with the North Only after the nuclear standoff was resolved by a verifiable agreement. That happened oct. .21, when the United states and North Korea signed a nuclear Accord after 17 months of negotiations. The agreement requires North Korea to freeze and eventually to dismantle its nuclear facilities suspected of bomb development in Exchange for billions of dollars in Aid and diplomatic relations with the United states. South Korea banned direct Trade with the North after world War ii left the Peninsula divided in 1945. Indirect Trade through Hong Kong and other third countries has Long been conducted however soaring from $1 million in 1983 to $232 million in the first eight months of 1994, the decision to allow businessmen to visit the North will help break the decades old constraint in inter korean Trade the South korean chamber of Commerce and Industry said in a statement. The president said that the two Korea should adopt a framework agreement to accelerate Trade and invest ment and that the South will begin that procedure by letting business people visit the North. From now on South North relations should be approached from a creative and practical viewpoint " he said. Seoul is expected to let businesses set up offices in North Korea soon and let plants move to the North for cheap labor