Hello and questions..

[Adrian Wilkins]

On 03/07/14 12:55, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> well, if the separate programs (which put additional information into
> their title) run on the same machine as the browser, arbtt will take the
> samples together, and there is no need to merge them.
>

Yeah, the idea of making hidden windows works nicely (maybe a little 
systray applet that collects information and holds a collection of 
objects that arbtt-capture can see), but I still like the idea of having 
programs that you don't need to run 100% of the time for things like 
calendars that are not as dynamic as user activity.

>
> But it is of course a valid feature request to intelligently merge log
> files from two machines so that simultaneous samples appear as one
> sample. But it is rather specialized and non-trival (what to do with
> non-matching sampling rates, e.g.), so it’s not on my TODO list yet.
>

I'm guessing that a more limited case where sample rates must match 
would be the best start there ; I don't like the prospect of matching 
events with different sample rates up either ; clock drift and different 
process start times are bad enough.

In any case... getting it to work at all on Windows would seem to be a 
challenge, which makes my multi-machine ambitions a moot point right now 
- still getting that permission denied problem, even when I run the 
application elevated, although I'm not sure what's causing it - as 
mentioned, we have some pretty heinous corporate malware installed. The 
alternate approach I tried that didn't involve OpenProcess seems to work 
without issues just from my little hacky C# application, so I shall see 
about sorting that out when I have a spare minute.

Until then, I'll be tracking my other minutes on my Linux boxes with 
more accuracy :-)