Anyone have a spare machine?

[D. Joe]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:19:54PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:57, Jack wrote:

> > While it may be really cool to say you run 50 applications all at once, the
> > truth is I suspect most of them are sitting idle most of the time and just
> > using up RAM that could be made better use of by other more frequently used
> > applications.
> 
> Most applications are not running most of the time regardless-- especially 
> when the CPU is occupied executing another.

Yup. That's what swap is for.

I know the reason I leave many different programs running is
that that's the best way to save their state.  It makes me much
more "interruptable"--improves my responsiveness without too
much of a hit in efficiency--to be able to leave a task, move to
another, work on it, and then return to the previous task.  I
can't remember all 40 things on my personal to-do stack, but GNU
screen sure can.  

My only beef is that GNU screen is limited to 40 windows per
session, without modification and recompiling. ;-)

-- 
D. Joe