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For anyone who leaves their computer on for more than a few days. In a similar fashion to pixelget and titlebarclock, this displays the uptime in the titlebar and updates hourly. This doesn't display uptime as days/hours but as days to one decimal place.

Screenshot (also with pixelget and titlebarclock running):


Changelog:
Script size shortened by using gosub (thanks corrupt)

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Looks like you've run out of room. What'll the next one be? A stand-alone toolbar to put it all in?

Thats true! But really, what else would I want to know? Apps like Samurize offer all kinds of resource/activity monitoring but after a while it seems for its own sake rather than for function which doesn't interest me.

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That is very, very true. Those kind of apps don't actually serve a purpose, really. I used sysmetrix for a while, then I realized that. Obviously, things like measuring pixels on a screen or finding the color of a particular background can be useful at times, but why would you need them while checking your e-mail or playing Warcraft?

Anyway, ya. I have a nice, simplistic desktop that I'm satisfied with, and most of the information I need I already know or can glance at an icon for. When I need to tinker, I get on my Linux and try to figure a little more of it out.

I'm much more of a multitasker, lots of things open at once. I actually need the uptime thingy to remind me to reboot. *laughs* Better that then how it was on Windows 98.

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Mozilla WATERYAK!?!? Whattahell is that?

Neato titlebar tingies btw, I'll have to play with these for a while .

The WaterYak is most likely one of the names generated by an extension which I forget the name of. It generates a random name to display in the titlebar every time you start SpaceSquirrel up. Some of the names it generates for SuperHamster are pretty darn funny, too.

Lol, I see. I can just imagine the logo for wateryak, this big hairy yak, dripping wet and shivering, with big puppy eyes.

Updated script with gosub routine, making script shorter.



I'm running two extensions - Titlebar Tweaks (use this to just show program name) along with Firesomething to get the Wateryak.



Thanks!

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@Serenity
Sorry couln't resist this one.

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I havnt rebooted in weeks, is that a really bad thing?

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If you're running Windows, most experts recommend rebooting every night. This is because Windows eventually accumulates extra resources and slows down over time. Sometimes it's not as noticable with power users, since they know how to take care of their system better, but the problem's still there.

In contrast, Linux has almost no problems like that. Some Linux servers running a minimum of tasks have been known to have uptimes of several years; other, more casual users say they have no problems leaving the system running for weeks or even months at a time. Personally, I still reboot it every couple of days just out of habit, but it's still an interesting thing to know about *nix.

P.S. Yes, I do know there are situations in which you should reboot, I'm merely saying that in casual use it's not as necessary as in Windows.

Dippy, thanks.



It depends on the OS and how you use your computer I suppose. I'm running 2k, and I have lots of programs open at once- it really starts to grind after say 10 days uptime. On Windows 98 I'd reboot at least 3 times a day with the same resources. Memory management on 2k and XP has improved alot. By comparison, in Linux processes tend to crash rather than the shell and many weeks uptime is not uncommon on a desktop machine. Windows for some reason just gets slower at performing all round the longer I leave it on.

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West

This is one of the main problems with Windows and Microsoft acts like it isn't even an issue. Of course, the cause of it is widely known; Windows is poorly designed. Period.