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Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? 403

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 04, 2010 @05:11PM from the throttle-the-snot-instead dept.

whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."

If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins 638

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:08PM from the expedient dept.

Julie188 writes "Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley, who has been using Windows 7 full-time, predicts that Windows 7 will fail to lure XP users away from their beloved, aging operating system — after all, Windows 7 is little more than what Vista should have been, when it shipped two years ago. But eventually old PCs must be replaced and then we'll see corporations, desperate to get out of the expense of managing Windows machines, get wise. Instead of buying new Windows 7 PCs, they could deliver virtualized XP desktops to a worker's own PC and/or mobile device. Ashley believes that Citrix's Project Independence has the right idea."

Comment When not to take a job (Score 1) 1245

by skurth on Wednesday March 02, 2005 @05:03PM (#11827225) Attached to: When Should You Quit Your Job?

I had a job, the pay was pretty bad, but I liked working there.

I interviewed and got offered a job:

1. 50% more pay
2. benifits

The problems with the job were:

1. Help desk job (been there, hated that)
2. The company didn't have the best track record (grow grow, fire fire, grow grow, fire fire)
3. The manager was way to happy to work for.

So after working another year at the lesser paying job, the company closed, and I then found a job paying double the job I turned down.

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