There are keep-alive programs to achieve this. 

https://movemouse.codeplex.com/

From: Jean MAURICE <jsm.maurice@wanadoo.fr>

To: profox@leafe.com

Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:39 AM

Subject: [OT] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

These last few days, I am smiling when I read Profox : I thought I was the only

'Foxil' still working with Foxpro DOS (I have an app working on a Compaq PC that

is 23 years old !) and I am an 'expert' of FORTRAN : when I was in university it

was one the few languages available (with COBOL and a little later C).

I still work with FORTRAN : one of my client is EDF (French national Electricity

Delivery). They where building simulations with 'R' (A new language easy to use

but .... slow). As a test, I translate one of them to FORTRAN : running time

went from 20 minutes to less than 3 seconds (on a multicore machine with FORTRAN

MPI). Since then, I translate a lot and they began to build large simulations

(one hour of FORTRAN !).

I have two drawbacks :

  - I can't 'teach' the new scientists that working with integer is a lot

quicker than working with real numbers

  - the FORTRAN exe run in a 'dos window' within Windows XP and I have no

access to the energy saver parameters. So, after 15 minutes, the PC goes to

stand by mode because Windows is not able to detect that a 'DOS' exe is running.

So I bought a 'rotating fan', fixed the mouse on it so it moves continously

right and left and ... windows stay 'alive' !!

The Foxil

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