I can't speak to your stress level, other than to say that my own has dramatically decreased since trashing my Windows boxes a few years ago!
I don't consider 1/20th of a second glance at Growl Mail notifications stressful, but if I miss an email request from a client who's in the midst of real-time operating room procedure as to why his anesthesia database is offline or hung up, then THAT'S stress! Perhaps I should have said that out of the 200 some odd emails I receive daily, I need only parse out about 75 of these with Growl Mail. The rest are filtered before I'd ever see them. On Nov 14, 10:54 pm, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > athttp://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.
