Use Fast User Switching to simulate virtual desktops

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10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

10.3: X11 and fast user switching

10.3: X11 and fast user switching 11/18/2003 01:59 PM
I think I read somewhere that X11 could work for only one logged-in user. Actually, when fast user switching, several people can have access to X11. The first one gets display 0 (the default), the second one gets display one ...

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal 11/07/2003 11:03 AM
For those who love Panther's Fast User Switching but don't like the menulet in the upper-right corner, here's a shell script to do it. #!/bin/sh if [[ -z $1 ]]; then # robg note: Please enter the next two lines as on...

Mac OS X enable fast user switching

Mac OS X enable fast user switching 09/23/2004 03:00 AM
Tech-Recipes Sep 23 2004 5:47AM GMT

FUS++ Enhances Fast User Switching

FUS++ Enhances Fast User Switching 11/17/2003 08:55 PM
FUS++ is a free open source utility that enhances Panther's Fast User Switching feature.

iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript

iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
I use iTunes on my desktop computer but spend most of my time working on my PowerBook. I have a couple of scripts on my PowerBook to pause and play iTunes on the desktop machine. Now that iTunes 4.5 will still play while swit...

Fast User Switching Makes Room for
Others

Fast User Switching Makes Room for
Others 05/27/2004 01:47 AM
Question: What is fast user switching?

iTunes 4.5 plays nice with Fast User
Switching

iTunes 4.5 plays nice with Fast User
Switching 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
This is a bit of an "un-hint." There have been many hints here on using iTunes with Fast User Switching. In versions of iTunes before 4.5, you could only run one instance of iTunes on a given machine, so some hints involved...

Use multiple iTunes libraries via fast
user switching

Use multiple iTunes libraries via fast
user switching 06/22/2004 09:14 AM
After struggling with an option that allowed me to story my main iTunes library on a file server, whilst still having a second (smaller) library that I can take with me when I'm on the road, I concocted the following concept....

10.3: Reclaim CPU cycles lost via fast
user switching

10.3: Reclaim CPU cycles lost via fast
user switching 01/06/2004 10:36 AM
Recently, I discovered that my iBook had its CPU pegged even though I was only using Safari and a few other small apps. Turns out another user left Microsoft Word running in her account (via fast user switching), and that wa...

10.3 Fast user switching and Logitech
Control Center 1.1.1

10.3 Fast user switching and Logitech
Control Center 1.1.1 11/16/2003 02:30 AM
I found that when using Logitech control center 1.1.1 with their Optical Wheel mouse that my configured "command-click" for the wheel button was not working. Since I use this to open links in a new tab in Mozilla, ...

WinSwitch 2.0 enhances makes Fast User
Switching

WinSwitch 2.0 enhances makes Fast User
Switching 09/07/2004 06:39 AM
Wincent Colaiuta has announced WinSwitch 2.0, the latest release of the popular replacement for Apple's Fast User Switching menu...

Auto-timeout to the fast user switching
window

Auto-timeout to the fast user switching
window 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
While this is far from an original hint on my part, it does pull together several good things into one bucket and provides an elegant solution to address multi-user system screen savers and security. So what I wanted to do w...

Fast user switching may disable some
print jobs

Fast user switching may disable some
print jobs 01/19/2004 11:43 AM
Today I was trying to print a image from iPhoto on 4x6 glossy paper using a HP PSC 750 All In One. My dad (admin) had been logged on and every time I tried to print, it sent him an error message even though I was logged in (I...

10.3: Palm Pilot hot sync works with
fast user switching

10.3: Palm Pilot hot sync works with
fast user switching 10/31/2003 10:36 AM
I turned on fast user switching (which I am very excited about). Just after switching to the login screen, without thinking, I hit the Hot Sync button on my Palm Pilot stand. To my surprise, it synced to the logged-in accoun...

Run applications as another user without
switching

Run applications as another user without
switching 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
This is regurgitating a hint I got from the comments section of another hint about Apache (I think). What this does is allow you to keep a program within the constraints of another user, without having that user logged in via...

Protect iPhoto originals via sharing and
user switching

Protect iPhoto originals via sharing and
user switching 07/02/2004 11:21 AM
One drawback for me with iPhoto is cropping. I would create an album for getting 4x6 prints, crop all the photos, export and send to photo lab. However, all those photos would be cropped in the main library and unless you use...

Quickeys and Fast User Switiching

Quickeys and Fast User Switiching 04/20/2004 11:12 AM
I was using a Classic filemaker application that required a lot of tedious mouse clicks, so decided to automate this using QuicKeys X2. After much configuration I got the macro to work. Unfortunately this long running macro h...

Fast User Switch from AppleScript

Fast User Switch from AppleScript 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
Here's an AppleScript to switch users, inspired by this item at MacOSXHints.com.

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
I couldn't imagine how it would be deactivated, but I found out: if you and the user you're switching to have different screen resolutions, depths or refresh rates, your fast user switching transition will be like a resolutio...

Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On
Your PC

Simulate "The Day After Tomorrow" On
Your PC 05/18/2004 05:56 AM

Windows XP users try their best to
simulate Mac OS X

Windows XP users try their best to
simulate Mac OS X 05/02/2004 10:32 PM
Windows XP users have serious cases of Mac OS X lust. Trying to simulate Mac OS X on Windows XP is turning into quite the hobby lately. While Microsoft is taking its own sweet time (years) to come up with a version of Windows (Longhorn) that tries to look and work like Apple's Mac OS X, Windows XP users are taking matters into their own hands while they wait and wait, then wait some more. "Look closely, and you'll see that its creator has done a very good job; although the machine is running Windows XP, the interface is almost indistinguishable from an OS X machine," Leander Kahney writes for Wired News. In the screenshots included in the Wired article, "notice the dock, desktop background, menus, system font and icons for applications and folders. Even the keyboard shortcuts belong to the Mac OS X." Kahney writes, "The system belongs to Kurt871, who won the latest monthly screenshot contest at AquaXP, a site devoted to turning XP boxes into faux Macs. AquaXP has 9,000 members. The site is named after Apple Computer's distinctive Aqua Mac OS X interface. A similar site, Aqua-Soft.org, has 16,000 members. And there are a dozen or more sites like them, according to the links collected at Iceman's Emulation Page."

Simulate 'The Day After Tomorrow' On
Your PC

Simulate 'The Day After Tomorrow' On
Your PC 05/18/2004 10:32 AM
Slashdot May 18 2004 1:49PM GMT

Popcorn Is Used to Simulate Oil Spill
(AP)

Popcorn Is Used to Simulate Oil Spill
(AP) 06/08/2004 09:05 AM
AP - A major exercise focused on cleaning up ocean oil spills is bound to be popular with the wildlife of a Norwegian fjord.

Computer to Simulate Exploding Star

Computer to Simulate Exploding Star 04/30/2004 11:12 PM
Universe Today May 1 2004 2:55AM GMT

Simulate a Windows-like Button Using
JavaScript

Simulate a Windows-like Button Using
JavaScript 02/10/2003 09:15 PM
WebmasterBase Feb 10 2003 8:48PM ET

Ultrafast supercomputer to simulate
nuclear explosion

Ultrafast supercomputer to simulate
nuclear explosion 12/27/2004 05:31 PM
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories this summer will simulate the explosion of an aging nuclear bomb, attempting to illustrate how missiles dating to the Nixon administration would perform today.

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
Byte Level Research publishes a global analysis of eBay’s business strategy and Web site. By 2006, more than half of eBay's revenues will come from outside the US. However, to maintain mementum, eBay must expand its pace of expansion and improve its Web globalization navigation. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

Fast Internet turns a fast buck

Fast Internet turns a fast buck 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
Haaretz Dec 23 2003 7:26PM ET

Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix

Virtual PC 7 The first major update to
Virtual PC since Microsoft bought the
emulation program from Connectix 01/03/2005 07:57 PM
MacWorld Jan 3 2005 11:05PM GMT

The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven

The Virtual Mobile Virtual Network
Operator From 7-Eleven 04/27/2004 05:27 PM
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are nothing new. Virgin, both in the UK and the US, has been quite successful creating their own mobile phone carrier, despite not having a network of their own, but simply handling the branding and management, while leaving all the technology issues to a network operator partner. So far, most MVNOs seem to be targeting the youth market (often with "pre-paid plans"), and considering just how lucrative that market seems these days, it's no surprise that plenty of others want into the market. However, operating the whole MVNO is probably a lot of work, so now we're getting to the point where you have virtual MVNOs (VMVNOs) who will do all the work for a company, and simply slap their brand on the final product. That seems to be what's happening with convenience store 7-Eleven, who has announced plans to sell pre-paid mobile phones and service under the "Speak Out" brand - though, all the work appears to be done by Ztar Mobile. Other retailers are quickly expected to follow. Wal-Mart is at the top of the list, with Costco and Home Depot also apparently considering their own mobile phone offerings. The idea is to target younger users, or those with bad credit histories, who can simply pick up a phone at the store, and use it until their minutes run out, at which point they can top it up again - back at the store, of course.

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

Link

HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine

HotFix Watch: Stop error message when
you install Virtual PC Additions and SMS
client components on a Windows NT
4.0-based virtual machine 09/08/2004 07:55 PM

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

Virtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.42 (Virtual World
Server) 01/28/2004 06:54 AM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.

Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server)

Virtual Universe 0.39 (Virtual World
Server) 12/02/2003 03:47 PM
A platform independent 3D virtual reality environment.
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Xmultiple Announces FocalPoint Snap-On's
For USB Cables - Bend, Rotate and Snap
USB Cables in the Direction a User
Desires

Xmultiple Announces FocalPoint Snap-On's
For USB Cables - Bend, Rotate and Snap
USB Cables in the Direction a User
Desires 06/05/2004 02:50 AM
XMULTIPLE Technologies Enhances USB Connections with FocalPoint Snap-On USB. Just Snap-On our FocalPoint Snap-On USB to your cable and position the cable in the direction you want away from a crowded work area [PRWEB Jun 5, 2004]

HP acquires Riverstone fast switch
rights

HP acquires Riverstone fast switch
rights 06/14/2004 10:16 AM
Personal Computer World Jun 14 2004 2:24PM GMT

Vitesse Bids $66M for Cicada in Fast
Switch Play

Vitesse Bids $66M for Cicada in Fast
Switch Play 12/30/2003 02:47 PM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 30 2003 1:19PM ET

Switch Terminal colors per user

Switch Terminal colors per user 12/28/2004 10:47 AM
After the recent post about switching iTerm's colors, and reading the post about dynamically switching to random colors in Terminal, I decided to look for a way to switch to pre-determined colors in Terminal per user. I use ...

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience 03/14/2005 04:25 PM

Last week, I wondered aloud whether Google's switch from dictionary.com to answers.com for their "definition" links was driven by concern for their users or was just a business deal:

The cynic in me feels like money had to have changed hands in order for this to have happened (maybe Google is an investor in GuruNet, maybe GuruNet paid for that placement), but the optimist in me says that Google is still a weird little company where the members of project teams can stumble across a better resource that will make their users happier and more productive and implement it on the live site quickly, even if the company that provides that resource could be considered a competitor.

Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google, was kind enough to respond to my query about it:

This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).

That a $50 billion American company is so focused on the experience presented to its users, well, it's pretty impressive.

Rotate Mania 1.0

Rotate Mania 1.0 08/27/2004 02:16 PM
Three in one! Endless rotating of color blocks will enchant you!

File-Rotate-Backup-0.07

File-Rotate-Backup-0.07 02/16/2004 10:46 PM

Rotate video 90 degrees in OS X?

Rotate video 90 degrees in OS X? 02/19/2004 10:12 AM
Does anyone know of a free/cheap tool for OS X that will let me rotate video clips by 90 degrees? I have a little Exilim camera that shoots short video clips, and I'm perennially framing my clips in portrait, forgetting that the camera saves everything as a landscape-ratio AVI. I want to be able to open the clips, rotate them 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clock and save them again as AVIs or MOVs. Mail me if you know the answer, please!

OK, here are a couple of solutions for this:

1. In QuickTime Pro: Movie -> Get Movie Properties -> Video Track/Size -- then use rotate buttons
2. Simple Rotate, an iMovie plugin

(Thanks to Matthias, Marc, Mike, Dieter, and David!)

But Does It Oscillate, Rotate, Spin,
Pulsate Or Vibrate?

But Does It Oscillate, Rotate, Spin,
Pulsate Or Vibrate? 05/17/2004 04:36 AM
It started with toothbrushes, but apparently the hot thing in devices that never seemed to need battery power in the past is to toss in a battery and make them oscillate, rotate, spin, pulsate or vibrate. Apparently such battery-powered actions are showing up in toothbrushes, razors, dish brushes, pot scrubbers and stain removing devices. There are mixed opinions on whether or not such buzzing movement actually helps the device do a better job of what it's supposed to do, but some people insist it makes whatever chore they're using the device for more fun.

Rotate Regular HTML Content Via DHTML

Rotate Regular HTML Content Via DHTML 05/23/2004 03:19 AM
WebmasterBase May 23 2004 7:21AM GMT

Apache piping makes it easy to rotate
logs

Apache piping makes it easy to rotate
logs 11/13/2003 03:09 AM
CNET Nov 13 2003 2:07AM ET

Use Fast User Switching to simulate virtual desktops

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