externals

[Randall Reetz]

Wow, yes, that is a good avenue of research.  Sorry everyone.  I did a google search on activity monitor and got a whole slew of results pointing to a commercial spyware program marketed to employers who see a need to watch their people as they work.  Sorry.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Smith" <lists at futilism.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 1/21/2009 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: externals

Randall, before you start talking about enslaving users, have you had  
a look at Activity Monitor? It's part of OS X, and it reveals (to the  
user) various metrics about their CPU, memory and I/O use, as well as  
listing the currently running processes, and that sort of thing. It's  
a rather innocuous (and quite useful) utility.

AFAIK, it does not pass your credit card details to the CIA, or tell  
your Mum that you used a rude word in an email, or perform any  
enslaving or otherwise objectionable functions.

Best,

Mark

On 21 Jan 2009, at 07:41, Randall Reetz wrote:

> Wow, what the hell does this spy software you recomended have to do  
> with automation?  What i am after is the complete opposite of what  
> this junk does.  This is about empowering the user, not enslaving  
> them.  What i am after is about leting the user get their computer  
> to do stuff for them before they ask.  Why would you suggest such  
> crap?  Sad.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Kurt Kaufman" <kkaufman at snet.net>
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Sent: 1/20/2009 3:54 PM
> Subject: externals
>
> "...An intermediate application that would launch at startup and
> listen to the flile system event loop... Waiting for user defined
> events and sending them out to my reactor app. (or any other stack or
> app so inclined)..."
>
> I take it the "Activity Monitor" is not specific enough and/or does
> not keep track of events at the level you're describing.
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