On Jan 1, 2006, at 3:47 PM, david_elmo wrote:
no drop down of what programs are open, you look in this dinky
over cute Disney dock (at least in Windows in this feature they
just have a small neat line and no fanfare).
Ok, turn off the Dock magnification and size it down to remove most
of the disneyishness. You can also set it to auto-hide, which I do,
gets it out of the way all the time. (I know of only one person who
actually like and uses the dock magnification feature)
Second, stop worrying about what programs are open.
Seriously.
That isn't a concern with OS X like it is with OS 9. One of the most
liberating things about OS X is that you don't, in the main, have to
worry about micromanaging memory usage like you did in OS 9.
My work system (a Sawtooth G4 upgraded to 800Mhz, 1G memory) runs
about the same when I have 15-20 programs open as when I have 3.
Moreover, if one program misbehaves, I kill it; the rest of the
system is unaffected, entirely. My work system is pretty much only
rebooted when system updates require, meaning it's uptime is
routinely measured in weeks. (it's also my web server, so it's left
on all the time.)
Moreover, (and counterintuitively) this is the best way to work with
a system that uses Unix. Fire up a program once and forget it. If
it's not used, it's memory is swapped off to disk and doesn't really
affect the functioning of the OS.
Once you've become accustomed to OS X you'll realize just how much
time you spent on the quirks of OS 9, just to keep the system up and
running.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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