http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=435 It really varies for me... depending on what I'm doing I can spend between 30 minutes and 8 hours online per workday. As I work for the government, almost all entertaining sites are blocked (i.e. Facebook), and I get dirty looks from my boss when I check my Gmail account (even though a few of the people I deal with for work use my personal email to contact me). Mostly, though, I spend my day reading old archaeology reports or looking at old bones, so not that much internet time... semblance@idkfa.com (semblance) Look down, look down... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:45:35 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=435 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=161 Might as well answer myself. - 99% of my time is spent on a computer. The other 1% is dedicated to meetings and playing Words with Friends in a bathroom stall. - I work for an Internet Service Provider, so, technically, my work is all for Internet purposes. However, on average, I'd put work vs. personal at 80% / 20%, on a given day. However, in slow season (summer, when our educational customers are on vacation), it gets pretty brutal. idkfa v3 progressed considerably as a result of my research into PHP and MySQL technologies, as well as my self-taught lessons in programming concepts. During busier seasons, I'm rushing to beat 5 o'clock, or getting calls at 3am to fix something important. - I've got three or four work-related email, ticketing, and notification services running at any time, as well as Gmail, and an SSH connection to my home server running a command line Gchat and AIM client (finch). - We do have policies against excessive personal use of corporate systems. My group tends to be the enforcer of these policies. To keep some semblance of sanity, we're pretty laid back, until "it becomes a problem." That is to say, if you're spending your day perusing Craiglist and Yahoo personals while streaming hick-rock and Youtube, we'll find you. So far, I've been able to maintain my personal browsing habits to no detriment to my work abilities, so I've stayed under the radar. I'm asking these questions to get an idea of how people use computers these days, and based on the answers, get an idea on what kind of features I should work towards on this version of idkfa. I've already noticed a number of people accessing idkfa from iPhones, and have made efforts to make that experience slightly more bearable. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:23:06 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=161 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=157 - I think I easily spend about 90% of my workday in front of a computer. And taking into account my time not at work, I probably still spend about 70-80% of my waking hours in any regular day in front of a computer. During times with more school work (finals etc) that is easily 90% of my waking hours including work and non-work. - I am ADD and have the attention span of a fruit fly, so I typically have multiple things going at once on my computer screen. I often switch between reading news, checking email, and doing work. About 5-10 minutes of every hour is spent doing something other than being productive in regards to the task I am attempting to finish. (hence the reason why it takes me to effing long to get anything done!!) - Anytime I have a computer on I am logged into Gmail, even if I am not at my computer. If my home computer is on and connected to the internet it has Gmail at least open, even if minimized. - Nope. If it did the entire company would have been fired. CapitolZebra@idkfa.com (CapitolZebra) Look down, look down... Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:01:57 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=157 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=140 - The time I end up spending in front of my computer varies wildly between 0 like on a long day working downstairs on a harvest in the TB infection room. To about 50% on days where I'm running an assay at my bench or working in the sterile hood. To about 100% on data analysis days. These days vary from week to week but in general I'd say I'm in front of the screen around 50% of the time now. - Unless you count emailing to people outside of the office as internet usage I think most of the time I have that internet working for not work reasons like gmail and pandora. Which is usually on about all day long unless I leave my desk for an extended period of time. Occassionally I do check my bank accounts or perhaps by some much needed bike parts, like I did yesterday, or look at webcomics or pretty much anything to break the monotony of data analysis. -I'm sure my work does in fact have some kind of policy about not being on the web for non work reasons, but enforcement seems pretty light handed considering how many screens I saw streaming world cup or how many people play pandora all day long. There is also a big facebook scrabble group here as well. For the most part I try to at least be working most of the day and keep the net time to a minimum, but there are slow days and long incubations with nothing better to do. And after 4 all bets are off, granted I work at the type of place where we can keep personal stocks of beer in the lunchroom fridge and then drink them after 4 as well. Pretty much the only places I've seen blocked are somethingaweful and southpark. So I can't watch episodes of SP at work, but at least youtube still works. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Look down, look down... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:47:54 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=140 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=134 1) The majority of my time is at a work station with a computer. I am not at the computer when I am filing, making copies or getting the mail and that's about it. 2) I use the internet all day for work. The student records are all online based and so I have at least 3 tabs open, usually 5 all day when I am at work. When at work I'd say it's 80% work and 20% personal as I usually have a tab open with my gmail and/or some other no-brainer site for when I need a break from dealing with the students and/or whiney professors. 3) Gmail Chat, all day on my BlackBerry and then usually most of the day on my workstation computer in its own tab. 4) Not official ones. I often receive FB messages from my boss or my boss' boss instead of official email when they want me to run to their offices. Weird and I find it slightly unprofessional but they are the ones calling the shots so if they want to ping me that way I'm okay with it. J_Maru@idkfa.com (J_Maru) Look down, look down... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:49:43 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=134 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=133 the majority of my workday is in front of or within an arms reach of a workstation connected to the series of tubes. My use of the internet for work purposes depends on the type and scope of the project i'm working on. Equipment manufacturers have all of their catalogs, and sometimes their sizing programs, on the internet these days. (on a side note, the websites with the easiest interfaces are the manufacturers with the largest market share, at least in my discipline. basically, if it takes me more than 30 seconds to find at least the category or series of equipment I'm looking for, I move to a different manufacturer.) To finish answering the question, at least once per project I spend as little as an hour, and up to several days looking for and selecting equipment off of the internet. on my workstation, no programs are constantly running that refreshes data from the internet. our outlook connects to an exchange server in the office, which connects to the master exchange server in seattle, which then runs our email. if our bldg internet connection goes down, or the Alaska-U.S. connection goes down, we lose our email. gmail, gchat, etc, is not run on my workstation, but on my phone. so far as i know we don't have a workplace policy restricting the use of the internet for personal use. (there are *odd* stories along these similar lines that I won't write down but would be happy to share over brewskis.) even so, we do have a blocker software thing that prohibits youtube, facebook and failspace. so far as i can tell, and so far as i have heard, that's all it blocks. in further reference to the things i won't write down here, i don't see why someone would get in trouble for personal use of intertubes at work. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) Look down, look down... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:41:54 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=133 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=132 I appreciate the response. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:21:34 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=132 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=131 Status: Grad student (i.e., underpaid in salary with potential degree to compensate for pay at less than 1/2 what I could be making). Question 1: *Raises hand* it comes and goes what percentage of the day it is, depending on how much work I need to be doing in the lab, but I would say computer face time averages to at least 50% Question 2: Internet use is probably 60/40 work/personal (if I'm being honest), most of my computer time is not internet related, though, even if I have a browser up Question 3: All day (gchat), even when I'm not at my computer. Question 4: Nope. But we are expected to get our work done, so it's somewhat frowned upon if we are seen doing something like facebook. Gchat, on the other hand, I have been known to use for work purposes (inter-office communication). Althanor@idkfa.com (Althanor) Look down, look down... Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:28:42 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=131 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=126 A question or two: - How many of you spend the majority of your workday in front of a computer workstation connected to the Internet? - How often do you use the Internet for work purposes? How often for non-work purposes (checking personal email, online banking, stock market trading, Facebook, etc.)? - How often are you connected to a service (web site, or otherwise) that maintains a constant connection to an external server (Gmail Chat, AIM, Facebook, any web site that can update itself without your refreshing of the page)? - Does your workplace have policies against using computers for personal endeavors? Do they enforce them? If so, have you "gotten caught" at some point? kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Look down, look down... Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:45:41 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=126&msg_id=126