thats great but what exactly do you gain other than the 1 minute a day you'd spend waiting for your PowerBook to boot up?
Wed, 2005-07-13 21:22 — jrearick
... and the 5 more minutes setting up what you were working on before, not to mention opening your email, aim, rss(web), programs that are open all the time anyway. When I want to work, I want to work NOW.
Thu, 2005-07-14 00:27 — jrearick
No offense but
(1) If it takes 5 minutes to open up what your on then somethings wrong with your workflow, your either setting up things you don't need or your trying to do 300 things all at once
(2) Why are you keeping all those programs open at once? Checking in every so often with e-mail shouid be good enough for anybody, plus there are dashboard widgets that will auto check for new GMail messages.
Safari being open all the time I can understand, external RSS programs are really unecessary, Adium again I can understand. Beyond that I don't know what youd have, why they need to be open all the time or why it takes 4 1/2 minutes to launch them.
The only program for me that actually takes a while to launch for me is Xcode and chances are if you have Xcode open your probably focused on that one task. In the 2 whole minutes it takes my PowerBook to boot up and launch everything I can usually go up to my room get some things, come down organize my stuff and get a quick drink. After all you don't have to stare at your screen while it's launching stuff.
Fri, 2005-07-15 00:26 — jrearick
So, assuming 2 minutes to turn on your computer and open things and start being productive. I open my computer 1st at work, then 2nd at class, then 3rd at work again, then 4th at home. 2 * 4 = 8 minutes waiting for my computer per day. 8 * 5 days a week doing this 40 minutes a week. This does not include the time it takes to shut down the computer, close every thing and wait for it to shut down. Assume 1 minute to shut down adds 20 minutes per week. That is one hour a week wasted by booting and shutting down a computer. For me that doesn't work too well.
Sat, 2005-07-16 01:22 — jrearick
I said turn it on once a day like I do, why you'd keep turning it on and off several times a day is beyond me. In classes at IHCC I turn my laptop on in the monring while im setting things up for class then turn it off before I got to bed.
2 * 5 = 10 minutes a week if you assume it also takes 2 mintues to shut down your computer ( i haven't timed it ) then thats 20 minutes a week thats 20 minutes thats only wasted if you sit down and just do nothing but stare at your screen.
Why you'd suggest turning it on and off several times a day is beyond me, who the heck does that, why not every half hour? Nobody I know has ever done that, seriously just turn it on in the morning and off at night. Bootup & Shutdown times only matter if you do nothing while it's booting up and shutting down.
If you even want to make startup more efficient theres this thing called Startup Items that auto launches apps upon login. Beyond that the only thing you could do to make startup more efficient would be to work on the XNU Kernel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU) for Darwin/Mac OS X.
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thats great but what exactly do you gain other than the 1 minute a day you'd spend waiting for your PowerBook to boot up?
... and the 5 more minutes setting up what you were working on before, not to mention opening your email, aim, rss(web), programs that are open all the time anyway. When I want to work, I want to work NOW.
No offense but
(1) If it takes 5 minutes to open up what your on then somethings wrong with your workflow, your either setting up things you don't need or your trying to do 300 things all at once
(2) Why are you keeping all those programs open at once? Checking in every so often with e-mail shouid be good enough for anybody, plus there are dashboard widgets that will auto check for new GMail messages.
Safari being open all the time I can understand, external RSS programs are really unecessary, Adium again I can understand. Beyond that I don't know what youd have, why they need to be open all the time or why it takes 4 1/2 minutes to launch them.
The only program for me that actually takes a while to launch for me is Xcode and chances are if you have Xcode open your probably focused on that one task. In the 2 whole minutes it takes my PowerBook to boot up and launch everything I can usually go up to my room get some things, come down organize my stuff and get a quick drink. After all you don't have to stare at your screen while it's launching stuff.
So, assuming 2 minutes to turn on your computer and open things and start being productive. I open my computer 1st at work, then 2nd at class, then 3rd at work again, then 4th at home. 2 * 4 = 8 minutes waiting for my computer per day. 8 * 5 days a week doing this 40 minutes a week. This does not include the time it takes to shut down the computer, close every thing and wait for it to shut down. Assume 1 minute to shut down adds 20 minutes per week. That is one hour a week wasted by booting and shutting down a computer. For me that doesn't work too well.
I said turn it on once a day like I do, why you'd keep turning it on and off several times a day is beyond me. In classes at IHCC I turn my laptop on in the monring while im setting things up for class then turn it off before I got to bed.
2 * 5 = 10 minutes a week if you assume it also takes 2 mintues to shut down your computer ( i haven't timed it ) then thats 20 minutes a week thats 20 minutes thats only wasted if you sit down and just do nothing but stare at your screen.
Why you'd suggest turning it on and off several times a day is beyond me, who the heck does that, why not every half hour? Nobody I know has ever done that, seriously just turn it on in the morning and off at night. Bootup & Shutdown times only matter if you do nothing while it's booting up and shutting down.
If you even want to make startup more efficient theres this thing called Startup Items that auto launches apps upon login. Beyond that the only thing you could do to make startup more efficient would be to work on the XNU Kernel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU) for Darwin/Mac OS X.