Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 09:56:30 -0700
Let's bring it back the other way for a sec.
Personally, I very much dislike the multi-user crap in OSX altogether. I
think as with any good user interface, there should be a way to turn it off.
(i.e. no references to root anywhere.) I constantly live in fear that my
OSX partition is going to be "fixed" by Norton again and I'll lose all my
"user settings", auto login, etc. and I'll be stuck without knowing the root
password again. Unix...
I can do the whole scenario below under OS9 right now without having to
switch user accounts, etc.
But, I can see the value of the feature for people concerned about
multi-user setups, but what about the little guy ;)
Scott
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On 7/4/01 3:06 PM, "Ryan Dary" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Please be realistic, what you are suggesting is an uncommon scenario.
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Let's look at this for example:
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Dad is working on the PC and gets up to go to the bathroom. Since he is
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connected to the internet kiddie decides he'll quickly check his email
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while Dad is relieving himself. Kiddie can quickly switch over to his
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account, check his email and switch back before Dad even flushes the
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toilet! Now that is cool and very usable. I think that it would be
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very good for myself if I could have some batch processes running in the
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background while my kids and wife check their email. Sure, it extends
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the period of time required for running the batch process, but it
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doesn't tie up the whole computer just because my user account is doing
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something. I personally would love this feature and think that it could
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become an invaluable asset to the Family Computer.
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I could come up with at least a dozen scenarios like this one if
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necessary.
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- Ryan
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On Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at 02:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Imagine Dad is working with the PC with XP, he begin burning a CD. It is
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> going to take a while, so he thinks "hey lets use this wonderfull
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> feature of XP and let the kiddie play with my PC". So the kiddie logs,
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> he lurks around HL for example, dl a cool looking game disk image, and
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> begin to burn the game to the CD. I bet a Bluescreen Of Death may
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> happen :-). Or even better he begin playing a game, say Quake III, and
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> in the heart of the battle it eats up all the CPU, so daddy CD get a
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> buffer underrun.
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> Jorge Salvador Caffarena
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> http://homepage.mac.com/eevyl/
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