Whats the most multitasking you do?

what cpu do u have and what multitasking have you done?

i usually do not multitask that much. i have firefox + irc + foobar open most of the time. i tried converting a video and playing quake 3 but that did not go over too well lol.

E8500 @ 3.8

Sempron LE-1100 @ 2.0GHz

Only light multitasking here. Usually firefox while playing mp3s and a word document or a PDF file or two open, sometimes printing a document at the same time. Often, I'll watch TV (either previously captured or on a streaming flash site like Hulu) while surfing the web. Rarely, I'll burn a CD or DVD in the background, or I'll transcode some video on low priority while on the internet. Usually when I play a game I won't have anything going on in the background except for Fraps, Task Manager, Zonealarm, RMclock, and other minor always-on apps.

i run 3 monitors

music and burn dvd on one, email and surf on the other and game on the third using a daul. little laggy but hey!

with 2 monitors its fine.

with my quad we can burn and game and im and music

Very little personal multi-tasking on my dual core system. I usually listen to an Internet radio station while editing digital images or working on a web site for a club I belong too.

Might want to consider the operating system. I understand MS Windows does an awful lot of multi-tasking that users don't ever see or consider.

do u get any lag when converting video + playing a single game or is it only when doing dual games?

Too bad BaronMatrix and his "megatasking" litany isn't here

The most multi-tasking I"ve done? Hmm, well I've had Microsoft Internet Explorer Open while listening to music, and working on a word document, while messaging on facebook and writing things down on a notepad. We had a computer built for our family that has been able to chomp through anything we've thrown at it. I prefer to not have so many things open though, I guess I could use virtual administrative assistant to get my stuff all in order. My desktop could use a good spring clean. Now that I think about it, maybe waiting to message my friends until after might be a better idea.

There's multitasking and there's real multitasking.

At work I frequently have autocad, explorer, adobe acrobat, outlook express, maybe notepad or wordperfect all open at the same time, BUT only the foreground task is actually doing something. The others are waiting for input and since I'm doing input in the foreground task only, the others are idle. This isn't really multitasking. When I ordered a new machine for work, I ordered a dual core processor. (Still waiting to get new software installed so I can actually put this machine in use but that's not the machine's fault.)

At home the most I usually do is run firefox, notepad, maybe downloading some files, maybe copying some folders in explorer, maybe running a virus scan. I'm apt to have 2 or 3 windows open that are all doing something all at the same time. Running a virus scan, downloading files or copying folders can each occupy a single cpu core. Since I might have several things going on at the same time I built a quad-core machine for home.

Here at work: Intel Xeon E5405 @ 2.00GHz w/4GB RAM on WinXP Pro 32bit

What am I doing right now?

Novell Groupwise
PL/SQL Developer
Excel
Access
Firefox
Windows Exploder...I mean Explorer
Plus all the Dell pre-loaded stuff

My biggest problem is network speed, since I share the network with some 400 people here (including our IS dept) and it bogs down sometimes.

Multi-task?, mega-task? sod that lets TERA-TASK

And if that don't float your boat, QUANTUM-TASK!!

Where da kittah?

(Bored at work with nothing happening today so I thought I'd answer)

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BASE System (In the background. This is only on my Development box. For production the database and job server(s) are on different boxen.)
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Virus Scanner (McAffee)
Cisco Security scanning software (Watches to see if I install anything and notifies "Central Services".)
MS SQL Server (Development and also repository -- all legacy systems are done in MS SQL)
Oracle Dev Server (Development Work -- Moving to Oracle. Yet again. After we moved from Oracle to MS SQL.)
Weblogic Server (It runs for now... but it is being phased out... I can probably remove it soon.)
Business Objects Server (Used for Data Integrator)
Business Objects WebAdmin Server (Yet another webserver)
IBM DataStage Server and services (TONS and TONS and TONS and TONS of stuff. IBM is never a clean install.. they load up everything and the kitchen sink.)

(BONUS points if you can identify where the name "Central Services" came from.)

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NOW the applications I might run together
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Avaya Softphone
Outlook
Eclipse
Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe
Business Objects Data Integrator -- Legacy systems
IBM DataStage -- New systems
I sometimes run Weblogic but not as much as I used to. Only one legacy job left that uses it.
Crisp. (A programmer's editor that can to BIG files.)
Oh yeah... and a browser so I can read forums like this one when I'm running jobs... or on slow days like today.

NOTE: Generally I try to close anything I'm not actively using. I often need both Data Integrator and DataStage running at the same time; but usually only for development not while actually running jobs. But then the jobs run in the servers and not the GUI anyway...