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Is your Mac multiuser or for yourself only?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Are you using the multiuser ability in OSX? Do you hoard the computer to yourself? Does your little daughter play the Elmo game in your DP? Did you give your iMac/A to your teenager son?
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Occasionally Useful
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Liverpool, UK
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Powermac is mine, all mine, but the iMac & iBook have another account (same on each)
hmm... another flawed poll.
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"Have sharp knives. Be creative. Cook to music" ~ maxelson
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Hmmm, people with many Macs. That's unthinkable!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Boston
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Me and my girlfriend share the same account on my Powerbook. When panther comes out i'll probably swith to seperate accounts using fast user switching. Just because it is nice to have your own desktop/prefs/bookmarks/etc..
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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My Macs are all single-user, but that's more because each one is predominately used by one person in the household. Heck, even my Linux boxes have precisely one non-root user! (not counting those Linux servers that like to run under their own user, of course...)
P.S. MacNN apparently doesn't like it when you mispell "counting"...
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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My work laptop has two accounts- me and a test account for when things get hinky.
Home G4 has me, my wife and my 2 yr. old.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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I'm the only one that uses my Power Mac G4!
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2002
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mine mine mine = iMac 17"
Slot Load iMac 500 = wife, kids, general population.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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Originally posted by mishap:
Me and my girlfriend share the same account on my Powerbook. When panther comes out i'll probably swith to seperate accounts using fast user switching. Just because it is nice to have your own desktop/prefs/bookmarks/etc..
Bingo... I tried to have two accounts, but it just killed me to shut down Safari, Photoshop, Illustrator, Mail, iTunes, iChat, Word, terminal, iPhoto... Just so she could check her mail...
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Do cats randomly hitting keys while trying to gain my attention count as a shared user?
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Atlanta
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Do cats randomly hitting keys while trying to gain my attention count as a shared user?
Only if they manage to crack your password while doing it.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: NJ/Philly, PA
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the 12 inch is all mine
Jason
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: always on the sunny side
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Bingo... I tried to have two accounts, but it just killed me to shut down Safari, Photoshop, Illustrator, Mail, iTunes, iChat, Word, terminal, iPhoto... Just so she could check her mail...
Same here. We've kept the two accounts though. My solution was to buy an iBook (500mhz) on eBay and set up a wireless network. It's been great.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2000
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We have 5 macs for 4 people in our family, but every mac has accounts for all of us. Go figure.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
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1. Administrator account.
2. My account.
3. Wife's account.
The kids have a 7600 to play with.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Originally posted by Face Ache:
The kids have a 7600 to play with.
That's cruel and mean. Can they even play MP3s?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Yokohama, Japan
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2000
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-r.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by The Godfather:
That's cruel and mean. Can they even play MP3s?
They are one and three years old. The only mp3s they might want to play are the Wiggles. And we can't have that.
Their Winnie the Pooh learning game runs fine on it though.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
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Did share an account on my powerbook with my wife, but she now has her own powerbook to play with, so it's just me now.
J.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out - Richard Dawkins
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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Originally posted by The Godfather:
Huh?
Oh, come on - "stop: hammer time"
"can't touch this."
etc.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The City Of Diamonds
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Originally posted by wataru:
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I have: my admin account, a guest account with no password a very limited abilities if my mother gets the urge to touch my powerbook (not too much, since she loves her ThinkPad, well she HAS TO she works for IBM ) and a >console account.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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Used to share my iMac with my wife, each of us with separate accounts. Then I got smart, checked the want ads, and found a used iMac for my wife.
Now we each have our own machine, but each iMac still has accounts for both of us (just in case one machine gets sick).
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I let my PC roommates use my comp. One of them remote logins so that he can use gcc to compile his hw for programming class. One of them uses it when I'm sleeping in our shared room. And all of them can log on if their comps suddenly goes crazy (happened a few times).
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally posted by malvolio:
Used to share my iMac with my wife, each of us with separate accounts. Then I got smart, checked the want ads, and found a used iMac for my wife.
Now we each have our own machine, but each iMac still has accounts for both of us (just in case one machine gets sick).
You -could- do something really crazy like keep both your home folders on a firewire drive so that if BOTH machines go down, you've got all your stuff on a drive you can take with you.
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