11-29-2007, 12:08 PM
Can you remove the drives? I don't know if you have them internal to a box or not.
As for when you are on -- vs. quick change-overs, if you enable Fast User Switching - you/he would go to the upper right corner (where your name is now) and it logs you out without closing your work.
He is logged in, without access to anything you are doing, and your apps or browser tabs, etc., remain as they were when you get the unit back.
He can log out - under the apple OR up in the corner, and it returns to a log in screen for YOU.
I'll have to take the guys above on their ownership of the drives thing -- encrypting them would be a real hassle, and the last thing you need is to be waiting for decryption on the fly - as well as some screw-up DURING encryption.
Unless that has changed so flawlessly....... BACK WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE - I recall trying that once in 1991 - Just when StuffIt / Aladdin had acquired it.
Even though it wasn't supposed to, it encrypted the System folder on my massive 40MB drive (via an SE) - and then stopped. It was hard to tell if it was working or stuck, but after 2 days, I restarted it.
I restarted it - but nothing happened...... because the system file was gone, and the encryption couldn't be rescued without a nuke and pave.
at $500 for a 100MB hard drive, those were not the days to have full back-ups of drives except on floppy (or maybe that new fangled Zip thang) - SO ..... all was lost.
In reality -- is any computer so expensive, even if a Winduds box, that this puke can't find a junkie student to sell him one for $75?
Review that last option and it sounds better every time. Family? That's one thing. You can beat them mercilessly as well as hold it over their head at family gatherings 25 years from now. A roommate? Once you break his nose, you'll only see him again, in court -- like I did mine.
I wonder what he's doing now? His nose was forever changed in October 1983.....
(Bwahahahahahahaha!!!)
As for when you are on -- vs. quick change-overs, if you enable Fast User Switching - you/he would go to the upper right corner (where your name is now) and it logs you out without closing your work.
He is logged in, without access to anything you are doing, and your apps or browser tabs, etc., remain as they were when you get the unit back.
He can log out - under the apple OR up in the corner, and it returns to a log in screen for YOU.
I'll have to take the guys above on their ownership of the drives thing -- encrypting them would be a real hassle, and the last thing you need is to be waiting for decryption on the fly - as well as some screw-up DURING encryption.
Unless that has changed so flawlessly....... BACK WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE - I recall trying that once in 1991 - Just when StuffIt / Aladdin had acquired it.
Even though it wasn't supposed to, it encrypted the System folder on my massive 40MB drive (via an SE) - and then stopped. It was hard to tell if it was working or stuck, but after 2 days, I restarted it.
I restarted it - but nothing happened...... because the system file was gone, and the encryption couldn't be rescued without a nuke and pave.
at $500 for a 100MB hard drive, those were not the days to have full back-ups of drives except on floppy (or maybe that new fangled Zip thang) - SO ..... all was lost.
In reality -- is any computer so expensive, even if a Winduds box, that this puke can't find a junkie student to sell him one for $75?
Review that last option and it sounds better every time. Family? That's one thing. You can beat them mercilessly as well as hold it over their head at family gatherings 25 years from now. A roommate? Once you break his nose, you'll only see him again, in court -- like I did mine.
I wonder what he's doing now? His nose was forever changed in October 1983.....
(Bwahahahahahahaha!!!)