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View Poll Results: Is your Mac a shared Mac?
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No. You can't touch this. 43 votes (71.67%)
Shared with someone else, same login 3 votes (5.00%)
Shared with someone else, separate accounts 10 votes (16.67%)
Shared with everyone in the household 4 votes (6.67%)
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Is your Mac multiuser or for yourself only?
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The Godfather
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Aug 21, 2003, 09:50 AM
 
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?
     
philzilla
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Aug 21, 2003, 10:16 AM
 
Powermac is mine, all mine, but the iMac & iBook have another account (same on each)

hmm... another flawed poll.
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The Godfather  (op)
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Aug 21, 2003, 10:33 AM
 
Hmmm, people with many Macs. That's unthinkable!
     
mishap
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Aug 21, 2003, 10:37 AM
 
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..
     
dreilly1
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Aug 21, 2003, 10:40 AM
 
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"...
     
Paco500
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Aug 21, 2003, 10:53 AM
 
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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Aug 21, 2003, 11:39 AM
 
I'm the only one that uses my Power Mac G4!

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boardsurfer
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Aug 21, 2003, 12:32 PM
 
mine mine mine = iMac 17"

Slot Load iMac 500 = wife, kids, general population.
     
mitchell_pgh
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Aug 21, 2003, 12:59 PM
 
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...
     
Sherwin
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Aug 21, 2003, 01:10 PM
 
Do cats randomly hitting keys while trying to gain my attention count as a shared user?
     
coolmacdude
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Aug 21, 2003, 01:57 PM
 
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.
     
variable06
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Aug 21, 2003, 03:06 PM
 
the 12 inch is all mine

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Aug 21, 2003, 03:11 PM
 
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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Aug 21, 2003, 03:28 PM
 
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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Aug 21, 2003, 07:48 PM
 
1. Administrator account.
2. My account.
3. Wife's account.

The kids have a 7600 to play with.
     
The Godfather  (op)
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Aug 21, 2003, 07:59 PM
 
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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Aug 21, 2003, 08:03 PM
 
Originally posted by The Godfather:
No. You can't touch this.
     
The Godfather  (op)
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Aug 21, 2003, 08:49 PM
 
Huh?
     
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Aug 21, 2003, 09:07 PM
 


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Face Ache
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Aug 21, 2003, 09:07 PM
 
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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Aug 21, 2003, 09:48 PM
 
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.

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Aug 22, 2003, 03:38 AM
 
Originally posted by The Godfather:
Huh?
Oh, come on - "stop: hammer time"

"can't touch this."

etc.
     
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Aug 22, 2003, 04:53 AM
 
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.
     
malvolio
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Aug 22, 2003, 09:57 AM
 
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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Aug 22, 2003, 05:23 PM
 
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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Aug 22, 2003, 05:26 PM
 
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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