Comments for Mark McLaren's Blog http://www.markmclaren.com/wp Real-world Software Development Tue, 24 May 2011 11:15:52 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Negative Productivity by Harry Wood http://www.markmclaren.com/wp/negative-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Harry Wood Tue, 24 May 2011 11:15:52 +0000 http://www.markmclaren.com/wp/?p=14#comment-547 Oh I quite like mini-screenshots. If the same application is open in many different windows, then showing the application icon becomes considerably less useful. But this may be due to my insistence on *not* using browser tabs. Mind you it's the same problem if you open five different word documents right? I say all this, but actually if your computer's started to run a bit slowly (which just seems to <i>happen</i> on windows after about 6 months) then fluffy graphical features start taking painfully long to load up. The 'Add/Remove' programs dialog was always the best one for that. "Please just show me the f**g list, and load the pretty bits later!!!" I'm on ubuntu now though << definitely the way to go, and easier than I expected Oh I quite like mini-screenshots. If the same application is open in many different windows, then showing the application icon becomes considerably less useful. But this may be due to my insistence on *not* using browser tabs. Mind you it’s the same problem if you open five different word documents right?

I say all this, but actually if your computer’s started to run a bit slowly (which just seems to happen on windows after about 6 months) then fluffy graphical features start taking painfully long to load up. The ‘Add/Remove’ programs dialog was always the best one for that. “Please just show me the f**g list, and load the pretty bits later!!!”

I’m on ubuntu now though << definitely the way to go, and easier than I expected

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