On Nov 13, 2010, at 4:48 PM, WahooCharley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> That particular precaution may or may not meet your needs; >> but as a practical matter, very few people really _need_ to grab >> an OS update within a few hours or even a few weeks of when it >> comes out, unless it has a fix or feature they really need, in >> which case, they need to decide what they're willing to risk >> breaking for the sake of installing the OS update early. > > In my case, installing an OS update is paramount in my business so > that I can stay one step ahead of my clients who who have done this on > their own. Those clients are using platform-centric custom databases > that I have written for them. If they have problems resulting from an > OS update they would expect me to have some answers - answers I could > not begin to give them if I hadn't already installed the OS update, > too. While this is a lot less critical in the case of 10.6.4 to > 10.6.5, it still applies just as it would updating from Leopard to > Snow Leopard. > > As for reliance on Growl Mail, I receive no less than 200 emails > throughout the day, about half of which need to be filtered by me for > content as they come in, simply to make sure that they don't require > me to respond at that point in time - thus interrupting programming in > which I might be embroiled. So even a day of having to switch over to > mail to check what's come in every 10-15 minutes is, well, a PITA. > At work I only check email at every hour or so. Switching to this model from what you are doing has dramatically changed how stressful things are. I have some rules set up in outlook for emails from specific people. > Hope this helps to explain my needs. > > Bart > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
