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Patch for the jargon file



Oh no.  Now that the jargon site has been cited, I sighted this:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Helen-Keller-mode.html

> 2. On IBM PCs under DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a
> screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses
> the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity.

The bad news is:  Guess which other OS suffers from this, if gdm sits idle
too long, at least in the version in RH 7.0J.

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