Uptime screen saver update

In a previous post, I detailed how to make a Mac screen saver that showed off your uptime. With the advent of Leopard, things have changed enough in Quartz Composer so that the Shell Command Patch does not work. When I get a chance, I’ll see about updating it, but for now it does not work.

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