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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."

Game Development In a Post-Agile World 149

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @02:28AM from the slowly-but-surly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many games developers have been pursuing agile development, and we are now beginning to witness the debris and chaos it has caused. While there have been some successes, there have also been many casualties. As the industry at large is moving away from the phantasmagoria of Agile, Gwaredd Mountain, Technical Director at Climax Studios, looks at Post-Agile and what this might mean for the games industry."

Comment Re:Information (Score 1) 650

by turbiniclist on Sunday January 10, 2010 @10:12PM (#30719188) Attached to: The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force

Isn't this implied by the second law of thermodynamics ..? ie. "energy systems have a tendency to increase their entropy rather than decrease it." or "heat can spontaneously flow from a higher-temperature region to a lower-temperature region, but not the other way around." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics) So heat/energy/information/whatever will always redistribute and disperse itself (bumping into stuff along the way) if left to the forces of nature!

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