Comments on: No Funciona

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:06:26 +0000

Linux Linux Linux :-)
The trick is not to get the latest and greatest the day it’s released. Instead wait a month or two for everyone else to find and fix the bugs. Just like Windows really.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:33:08 +0000

Bite the bullet, go hippy and install Ubuntu! Then tell all your mates how easy it is to use and how your comments about recompiling the kernel were completely unjustified. ;-) Having said that, I am smug because I have geeks on tap to tell me what to do… http://www.ubuntu.com/

By: wrighty

wrighty — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:16:16 +0000

I give up. Coffee time…

By: wrighty

wrighty — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:15:42 +0000

Try to imagine a smattering of tags in there as I still can’t read instructions.

By: wrighty

wrighty — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:14:47 +0000

Maybe you need to enable Fast User Switching?

It’s in System Preferences, Accounts, Login Options (though you’ll need to be an Admin). I’ve just checked and if you tick “Enable fast user switching” then you’ll get a Switch User button when trying to disable the screensaver.

Keep in mind however that the previous user’s programs will still be running but as you say you’re using it just for testing hopefully you’ll only have a few copies of Safari and maybe *spit* Mac IE 5 run up in the background.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:25:03 +0000

But there isn’t an ‘other user’ option… :(

By: Martyn

Martyn — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:32:09 +0000

Assuming you’re on OSX 10.something – as soon as you get to the unlock screen, click on other user, and log on – it’ll leave the existing user logged on the background. Better than XP, where a locked screen requires a hard reboot or an admin password if the locked user wanders off.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:09:54 +0000

Urgh, this popup is absolutely horrible. Must sort this out. Oh and I put some linebreaks in for you, Paul :)

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:09:06 +0000

You know, it’s the password thing that’s the big mac problem. Unfortunately the powers that be at work won’t allow us to have a single, local logon for our shared G5 which we use for testing. The result is that we have to log in individually, and inevitably the screensaver kicks in (can’t change that setting, either) and then you have to *reboot* to log in as a different user. Any solution to this particular headache gratefully appreciated…

By: wrighty

wrighty — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:56:26 +0000

Try to imagine a smattering of
tags in there as I can’t read instructions.

By: wrighty

wrighty — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:55:03 +0000

I think you secretly know that a Mac is the way forward, Simon. iTunes and Quicktime suck on windows the same way acrobat sucks.

The keyboard shortcut to log out is Shift -Command-Q or Shift-Option-Command-Q if you don’t want a prompt (not quite a three-fingered-salute I’ll grant you).

I’ve got the macs I use at work and home set to use hot corners so when I put the pointer in the bottom right corner it will activate the screen saver which is set to require a password before it goes away.

As for the melts I confess I don’t know about that but I too am eying up the new Macbooks. And if someone tried to swap my aging G4 iMac at work for a shiny new XP / Vista machine I’d snap their arm off.

Armless Genuine Advantage.