How to Organize Your Desk to Finish Work Faster? 16

[dgillette]

"Hi Guys
I´ve found that having my screen rotated to portrait view saves me a little time, esp when dealing with word and pdfs.

If your computer accepts this jut press: CTRL + ALT + Left Arrow"

This isn't widely known, so remember it for April 1. Down arrow turns it upside down. Baffle your friends and coworkers.

 

[JohnRBaker]

In the old days, back when we were all on dumb-displays serially connected to a mainframe, you used to be able to 'broadcast' messages to the screen of your coworker's stations (sort of an early form of 'text messaging') and what you would do is send a 'Ctrl-G' (which would ring a bell) followed immediately by the command (which I've forgotten) which would perform a 'display reset'. Anyway, it would look and act (getting a bell and then you screen flashing and going blank) just like a fatal crash. Now nothing was lost as all they had to do was just ask for the screen to redisplay, but for a few seconds you could really mess with someones head ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[SomptingGuy]

In the slightly less old days, when we all used X-Windows on UNIX computers for "real" work, the policy was to have your screen totally open, so that applications could display on it remotely. It was possible in a single command line to make an exact copy of a remote screen and then display that image over said screen, and with the right switches, deactivate the mouse buttons. The returning user would be left with the screen looking exactly as they'd left it, only now totally inoperable. Always amusing to watch them try to solve the puzzle.


- Steve

 

[ocean1]

I'm every day clean and organize my desk and I'm happy for doing that, but I'm feel everybody of my companion look at me and say in his self or directly to me (oh what crazy and cleaning show off)

 

[marks1080]

Screw organizing my desk. I wish there was a better way to keep my tool box organized. Never fails, every time I rearrange everything in there just the way I like it, I go and open it upside down. And what about my box of leads? I try my best to keep each lead tied up so they don't end up in a tangled mess, but they still always end up in a tangles mess. ARGH!!!

 

[GregLocock]

Leads are easy, ziplock bag for each one. It looks a bit anal, works like a dream. You get extra points if you test each one before you bag it up!

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[relentlessratt]

my desk only has a little space for a keyboard. the rest is covered with paper in a random heap. and i cant find time to attempt to clean it. but it works for me since the highest priority work always ends up on top. People have offered to clean it but i refuse their offer. i am afraid that they will mess up my system.

 

[Bob83]

Helped me to cut down my working hrs nice post thanks

 

[Sparweb]

Wow, my score = 7/7
Either I've read that list before or I'm naturally a neat-freak.


Steven Fahey, CET