Multitasking is a big part of computing and non computer life these days. I often find myself always busy with five things at a time, but I never seem to finish what I need to do.
What do you think about multitasking?
If you're running Windows, muiltitasking just increases your chances for a utter and total system crash. In which case, you'll find yourself using CTRL+ALT+DEL keyboard shortcut.
(I don't like to multitask. It's distracting.)
--Beanie
"Multitasking is like stomping on your motherboard with baseball cleats."
(I read that on a tech humor site once. It was supposedly a line uttered by some doof at a mom 'n pop PC store. Aaanyway...)
I tend to disagree. I multitask quite a bit at work since I'm not only an admin, but "the tech guy" as well. I get interrupted a bunch and wind up closing 20 programs each night before I go home. I run Windows 2000 Pro on a 1.26 P3m, 512mb laptop and rarely use CTRL+ALT+DEL unless I'm locking my system. The only times apps hang is when it's their own fault (not timing out a connection properly and hanging, etc). Plus, if I had to wait for exverything to finish on it's own before I moved on to the next thing I'd get a lot less done.
I might be a bit of an exception, but I do have trouble concentrating unless I'm constantly busy with multiple things, so multi-tasking is a must for me. :-D