how much of your day is spent in front of the computer?

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:12 pm

And in particular one program?

Outlook?
Illustrator?
Cubase?
Melbournebeats.com?

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:16 pm

MB.C - an hour or so a day, on and off
theage.com.au about half an hour
hotmail - 5-10 minutes
facebook - 5 minutes
gossip sites, depends on who's fucked who recently, could be up to half an hour.
seek.com.au etc- 20 mins or so

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:17 pm

gmail
mac mail
artshub
few music forums (yes MB my fav)
few street art forums
couple body mod forums and majick forums
faceflap
myspazz

editing and compiling
my own photos
my own words

it never ends

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:19 pm

Outlook
Pure Message
Excel
Word
Facebook
MB
Gmail
Real Estate.com

Post by **huge** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:19 pm

9 hours ez

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:21 pm

9 hours plus

Post by **system** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:22 pm

~9 hours, mainly in multiple shell windows.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:24 pm

9+ easily, in front of two monitors.

Maya
Photoshop
Thunderbird
Mozilla

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:25 pm

About 7-8hrs for me during the weekdays... maybe 1-3 hours on the weekend.

Outlook
Dynamics (our inventory system)
MB.com
Excel
Word
--other apps--

Post by **huge** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:25 pm

well ive got THREE monitors!

e-penis++

Shadowgames · Post by **Shadowgames** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:26 pm

i'd say 9+

mainly:
wavelab / protools / sadie

then web browsing / email

:s

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:28 pm

huge wrote:well ive got THREE monitors!

e-penis++

Well I have 2 monitors and a tv for the dev kits.

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:38 pm

9+ hours web/mail/ word/ some design apps at work, home web, email and live

Post by **system** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:43 pm

huge wrote:well ive got THREE monitors!

one for email, one for web browser, one for pr0n?

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:48 pm

outlook
access
excel (stab!)
word
mb
wiki
theage
flickr

6-7

rarely use pc at home. had enough by the time i get home

aiming for job with less PC time

same o · Post by **same o** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:49 pm

9 - 5 on computer.

using old skool green black dos type programs..

Post by **huge** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:06 pm

system wrote:
huge wrote:well ive got THREE monitors!
one for email, one for web browser, one for pr0n?

huhu lemme see.

left screen is the PC, 19" sammy. outlook, heat call logging, AD Users and Comps, firefox, putty, RDC.
middle screen is mac, 19" sammy exclusively Adium huhuh.
right is mac, 24" apple. ARD, Azureus, firefox, itunes, CS3 etc.

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:49 pm

huge wrote:well ive got THREE monitors!

Post by **huge** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:27 pm

and all hooked up with Synergy

Snowie · Post by **Snowie** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:12 pm

8 hours of work as a computer programmer(vb coding & script based programming), then up to 7 hours at home on various music making apps( mostly ableton).

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:29 pm

Wow, 45% over 9 hours a day. Heavy.

Does anyone here do manual labour? Anyone (besides me for the moment) only use the computie/interweb for entertainment purposes only?

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:43 pm

8 hours at work

outlook
excel
geac pathway
vantive
IE (multiple windows, mainly internal network) mb.c, theage.com.au, inthemix.com.au, wikipedia for non-work time wastage.

then at home, I use opera, fair time between gmail, mb.c, facebook, myspace, inthemix,
itunes
excel
trillian
lightroom
photoshop
ableton live

that's about it

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:05 pm

8 hours at work consists of up to 13 programs running, no point saying the names because they won't mean anything to you guys.

Then out of work
flickr, deviantart, facebook, mb.c, youtube, hotmail, ebay for making my dream list of what new lens to get for my camera, photoshop, itunes, writing crap, uploading photos and endless gawking at art and fashion sites.
Shit loads I'm ashamed actually.....

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:04 pm

7 or 8 hours a day.

porn.
porn.
porn.
porn.
porn.
lolcats.
porn.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:23 pm

9+ hours

standard Microsoft programs plus in-house databases which i view mostly.

9+ ain't that hard when you work at a desk. You work overtime and during lunch, you reach 9+ hours easy.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:11 am

if not doing field work, 9 or so easy.

at work: excel, access, arcview, word, SAS, R, primer.
with msn, aim, iTunes, couple of forums in background.

at home: reason, cubase, tractor, and I watch alot of AVI files because TV is rubbish.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:17 am

does x-box count??

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:06 am

9 hrs + easy!

get up at 4am. fly somewhere.
fill in time at airpoirt reading emails.
draft functional/technical specs on plane.
arrive at destination.
status meetings.
Design and implementation of software solutions.
Maintenance and enhancement of existing systems.
Analysis of user and legislative requirements.
Develop functional specifications, user guides and system test plans.
Conduct testing and perform quality control of documentation and software.
AS/NZS ISO/IEC 12207:1997 - IT - Software Lifecycle Processes.
PROS 99/007 Management of Electronic Records.
AS/ISO 15489:2002 - Records Management & DIRKS Methodology.
SQL and Oracle.
Visual Basic.net, ASP.net.
XDK and RoboHelp Authoring Software.
Technical Specification Tool and resource tools within Visual Studio.
more meetings.
melbournebeats.com for mental relief at regular intervals.
9pm return to airport or hotel.
respond to more emails at airport.
Complete outstanding work on plane.
11:45pm get home and prepare for next day.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:24 am

Lucky you naturally have so much energy, that is pretty crazy.

I am stuffed after 8:30 - 6:30 day at work.
I spend as much time on the phone in my new job as on Explorer/Datebases/research

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:41 am

Snowie wrote:...then up to 7 hours at home on various music making apps( mostly ableton).

Whatever dude... You really mean, over 7hrs at home on Windows Media Player, FLV Player and Power DVD - you porn master you!

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:21 am

DBoy wrote:Lucky you naturally have so much energy, that is pretty crazy.

I am stuffed after 8:30 - 6:30 day at work.
I spend as much time on the phone in my new job as on Explorer/Datebases/research

over it. i just quit my job after 14 months straight without a holiday.

the only good thing to come out of this hell was the frequent flyer points. now I can fly return first class virgin atlantic to USA or UK for free!

(nevermind the fact that the last thing I wanna do is get on another friggin' plane)

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:27 am

C.I.A. wrote:does x-box count??

How many hours you clocking now then?

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:16 pm

mixtress wrote:MB.C - an hour or so a day, on and off

somehow I highly doubt that

Lil MiSbreaks · Post by **Lil MiSbreaks** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:34 pm

Aside from breaks, my entire day is in from of a pc. When i get home my shoulders ache too much to even check my own personal emails.

Couldnt for more computer action when work is over. Which is a shame cos heaps of fun stuff on the net!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:26 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
mixtress wrote:MB.C - an hour or so a day, on and off

somehow I highly doubt that

Um, no. I pop in, have a quick read, write something and piss off again. I only come into the computie room to have a cigarette, which takes 5 minutes then I'm outtie again. And I don't smoke that much.

You're thinking too far into the past my friend, times they have a change-ed.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:26 pm

It's scary. Every day I'm doing music and surfing the web at home, then I go to work and stare at a screen for hours, then come home and do more music and web surfing.

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:42 pm

it's a fucking miracle we all dont have Carpal tunnel syndrome

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:49 pm

my wrist gets a little sore. lol, no jokes please.

Actually one of the guys here got rsi so bad the doctor made him take 3 months off work!!

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:57 pm

I want that doctor's contact details.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:04 pm

anyone train themselves to use left and right hand mouseage?

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:08 pm

At the same time!?

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:11 pm

a1studmuffin wrote:I want that doctor's contact details.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:42 pm

Stray wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:does x-box count??
How many hours you clocking now then?

Ummm.... is "some" an answer??

same o · Post by **same o** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:48 pm

Stray wrote:At the same time!?

that would be awesome and really confusing all at once

FunkyJ · Post by **FunkyJ** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:42 pm

Special Hegg wrote:It's scary. Every day I'm doing music and surfing the web at home, then I go to work and stare at a screen for hours, then come home and do more music and web surfing.

I'm the same, but replace music with games.

Post by **system** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:24 am

flippo wrote:anyone train themselves to use left and right hand mouseage?

just use the keyboard for everything.

Post by **lynt** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:01 am

sAme'0 wrote:
Stray wrote:At the same time!?
that would be awesome and really confusing all at once

Kind of like acid.

Scotrod · Post by **Scotrod** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:53 am

I've got a broken bone in my right hand so I have to use my left now for the mouse. Apart form the fustration of everything taking 10 times as long, the weird thing is my back and shoulders feel better when i come home from work. (9.5hrs on Adobe CS 4 days a week)

Post by **system** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:45 am

Scotrod wrote:I've got a broken bone in my right hand so I have to use my left now for the mouse. Apart form the fustration of everything taking 10 times as long, the weird thing is my back and shoulders feel better when i come home from work. (9.5hrs on Adobe CS 4 days a week)

have you tried using a tablet? i've got a few friends in the design industry who use them full time now after suffering from rsi/cts.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:08 am

yeah, Guyno uses a Wacom tablet 100% of the time, so much so that I've seen him 'try' and use a mouse and FAIL

Melbourne Beats

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