"Stay alive" utility for Ubuntu?

[Jeffrey Needle]

> Just for the record, so everyone realises that I am not *that* senile, I
> was not being serious.
> 
> On a subsidiary point, I think that a screensaver used on a modern LCD
> display does not increase the life of the display.  The pixels do not
> wear out or burn in like a CRT display does.  The thing that does happen
> is that the backlight wears out, so the important thing is to put the
> display to sleep rather than running a screensaver.
> 
> Colin

Thanks for the advice -- I didn't know this.  Man, I feel like an old man 
these days...<grin>