Thread: System Monitoring - What do you use?

Nothing.

Calender and battery can be found in the bottom right of a Windows machine...

Seems like a waste of space and memory tbh.

But it looks cool, I've got a 24" monitor and tons of memory. Having a clock with seconds is nice too, I time my classes fairly closely to be sure my students get their full amount of time.

Originally Posted by Topper

But it looks cool

Which isn't much of a reason for most people, but if that's what floats your boat...

These are your speakers right Tops?

Originally Posted by david44

Any additional software is extra load and possibly exploitable IMHO

He said already he has plenty of RAM, so load is not an issue, rainmeter is open source, and it has been around for over twenty years. There is no risk to running it whatsoever.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Which isn't much of a reason for most people, but if that's what floats your boat...

I don't see the need either unless something starts to slow down; taskmanager gives me enough info to find the offender and deal with it.

How much ram is enough? Depends on what you are using your machine for.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Don't be so utterly naiive.

Good lord, you need to lay off the bong hits.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The only difference between OSS and commercial software is that there is more transparency when they find their software has a huge fucking hole.

From someone that clearly has never written a bite of code in his life.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Add to that it's yet another step in a troubleshooting chain if it conflicts with something else and you have two good reasons not to use something just because "it's cool".

What the fuck is this gibberish?

Originally Posted by bsnub

From someone that clearly has never written a bite of code in his life

erm I have and with my pedant hat on its a byte

Snubby's out of his depth as usual.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

my pedant hat on its a byte

a bit of sexadecimal never inhibited abum assembler, sorry my array overfloweth IBM arse ressembler as it was called in 80s when a net was worn by Ena Sharples and the web was for spiders. May yer Griddle stop the spetsnatz.

I think our lad wants a cheap plug and play quite rightly to entertain him while wiring for Socal's English lesson. Hopefully at $50 an hour can buy top notch kit for a mornings dribble.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Snubby's out of his depth as usual.

Not at all, I was just shitfaced. A bit or a byte, it's all zeros and ones.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Add to that it's yet another step in a troubleshooting chain if it conflicts with something else and you have two good reasons not to use something just because "it's cool".

It is a personal laptop he uses at home, not a crucial interface of some mammoth network dippy. It is fine to use.

My first work station as a confuser programmer.

Ah I remember those well in an era when Sideburns and flared trousers were all very Ron Burgundy and a dip in the pool after work was a date with a room full of young ladies in mini skirts "typing" something on a "typewriter" for the benefit the cubs like Backspin this was a 12 pound iPHONE that didn't make calls but produced hard copy and had a reassuring DING, never got lost not flat battery !!!!

^ ...and you can blame marketing at Remington for the final qwerty layout. They decided the top row of keys had to spell 'typewriter'...I guess it could have been worse if the keyboard warriors had their say.

Originally Posted by Norton

My first work station as a confuser programmer.

I remember my parents getting punch cards with the bills.

Originally Posted by bsnub

It is a personal laptop he uses at home, not a crucial interface of some mammoth network dippy. It is fine to use.

Which has absolutely fuck all to do with what you were trying to be smart about - and failing.

Snubby, leave the nerd stuff to nerds.

Originally Posted by Topper

I remember my parents getting punch cards with the bills.

I remember how very hard we tried not to drop a box of those back in the day. Fucking nightmare if you did.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

to drop a box

HOLLERiffic

Based on Jacquards loom punch for textiles

Originally Posted by bsnub

That's some shizz right there.

Designing a computer with WiFi printer would surely be simpler.


Lego brought out a Lego Typewriter a few years ago.



That actually types. Which is pretty damn impressive. Though I don't know if they make a Davey-Ding sound.

Apparently they sold out.

Edwina wanted one from Santa, which she nearly got, until Santa saw the price of the fookin' thing.


He brought her a 1 meter tall Lego Saturn V rocket instead, bless 'im.

Good choice. It's not a fun build. All those moving parts....