[ALUG] Anybody else ever tried fast-user-switching as context-switching?

[Tim Green]

On 6/20/07, Ruth Bygrave <rbygrave at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Where I've use a separate account for writing, however, that's really
> > *because* it's slightly less convenient for distractions - ie fast
> > user
> > switching is quite slow, or if I want to sign into my instant
> > messenger or
> > work on that python problem I'm itching to solve, it's not done by
> > absent-mindedly clicking the icon etc.
> That would also make sense for me. I know of at least one tiny Mac
> app which is designed for creative writing in that 'take all the eye
> candy off the screen' way, so we're obviously not the only people
> with discipline problems.

Ha ha ha! Douglas Adams (author, famous Mac user) used to complain
about that too. Can you hear those deadlines WHOOSH past?

Tim.