Knowing that two of my housemates plan to leave the third one high and dry, while he has no idea about it, do I tell him? Or is this a breach of trust to them? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 14, 2009 - 25 answers

How can I make my JW videos embeddable and Facebook share-able? [more inside]
posted by bingo on Nov 12, 2009 - 2 answers

Is there some way to share video over Skype with the screen share feature? [more inside]
posted by flod logic on Sep 5, 2009 - 4 answers

I have a 1TB secondary drive in my desktop computer that I have the root of shared over my local network. Inside are 5 folders, all but one of I want to be accessible over the network (one is a backup folder I don't want accessible to other network computers). Before I reinstalled my OS I had figured some way of changing the permissions so that if I was on the desktop itself I could get into the backup folder, but if I was on any other computer on the network I could see the shared drive and modify any folder but the backup one. I just recently reinstalled Windows Vista (Went from 32 bit to 64 bit) and now I can’t remember how I had set the permissions. [more inside]
posted by token-ring on Aug 23, 2009 - 3 answers

What is the fastest way to learn online shares trading very quickly? [more inside]
posted by gttommy on Jul 19, 2009 - 10 answers

I own some UK stock which is listed on the London Stock exchange. The companies' shares aren't registered in the United States and cannot be sold in the US. I would like to sell a portion of these shares, so I would like to find the name of an English bank and a telephone number for the appropriate person at the bank.
posted by Daddysugar on Apr 28, 2009 - 4 answers

Two SMB shares on OSX with same/similar names causing big headaches. Is there a way to force mount points? [more inside]
posted by furtive on Mar 25, 2009 - 1 answer

How would one go about creating a playlist akin to a mixtape (ie with specifically ordered songs), to share with a friend via thumb drive/zip file? [more inside]
posted by miss_scarlett on Feb 25, 2009 - 3 answers

On a Windows share with a complex file tree, is there any way to lock down the tree so that folders can be added by all, but the directory structure itself can't be changed? [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Oct 13, 2008 - 2 answers

Looking for one way car rental, ride share, or other transport east from Toronto. [more inside]
posted by crazylegs on Oct 7, 2008 - 4 answers

What's the best P2P direct connect software for University networks? [more inside]
posted by ilumos on Sep 12, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a project I just completed for my MEdu program. As part of that I created a video. I recorded it on my Panasonic SDR-H18 camera, edited it with the ImageMixer3 crap software that came with the camera and joined two clips into the movie I wanted. The problem? The end result seems too large to upload anywhere. The video is just under 1 GB. So I broke the video up into parts 1 and 2, 790 MB and 227 MB respectfully. I still can't upload even the smaller clip. [more inside]
posted by sisflit on Aug 12, 2008 - 16 answers

Scary roommate situation. I want to leave and I'm trying to figure out if I have any way of getting my money back, which I really need to help me get another room. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 5, 2008 - 32 answers

Ideas for creating a website for a campus TV station; basically a blog with embedded videos but I still need ideas and guidance. [more inside]
posted by the_dude on Mar 24, 2008 - 3 answers

Where can I find a standalone device that has a female DB-15 VGA port on one side and a female Cat-5 on the other, with a VNC server in between? [more inside]
posted by yellowbkpk on Feb 8, 2008 - 17 answers

I really like ffffound, but the invites are really hard to get. Are there any similar alternatives? [more inside]
posted by clearlydemon on Nov 15, 2007 - 2 answers

Help a new OSX user love his Mac. How do I share my pictures folder with another user on the same computer? [more inside]
posted by sauril on Sep 12, 2007 - 4 answers

Can you please tell me about the strengths and weaknesses of the following database: MorningStar , Value Line , Standard & Poor's , Lipper ? [more inside]
posted by cluelessguru on Aug 23, 2007 - 2 answers

How do I integrate several sub-networks for Windows/Samba compatibility in a rather complicated home-office environment? [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Aug 12, 2007 - 5 answers

looking for Online real time webbased share monitoring services specifically for the footise [more inside]
posted by complience on Jun 14, 2007 - 1 answer

How do I deal with a roommate's SO? [more inside]
posted by sunshinesky on Jan 16, 2007 - 43 answers

Here's what I know: I can access my smb share without difficulty via the Finder/Network or by mounting it manually, but what I can't seem to do is automount my samba share on boot/login. There's a reward and twice more inside. [more inside]
posted by furtive on Jan 2, 2007 - 13 answers

Where can I find a global network of amateur stock detectives, as used by Christopher Carey of Mark Cuban's http://www.ShareSleuth.com ? [more inside]
posted by cluelessguru on Dec 28, 2006 - 3 answers

KubuntuFilter: I can't seem to share my home directory with the rest of my LAN. [more inside]
posted by dropkick on Nov 7, 2006 - 5 answers

How to share files between a Mac and a PC over an 802.11g network? There is of course [more inside]
posted by LoopyG on Oct 30, 2006 - 5 answers

I am a mac OSX user and I want to send Huge (>1GB) files via the internet. Does anyone have a solution other than Yousendit, dropshare or AIM?
posted by lukeomalley on Oct 19, 2006 - 13 answers

Help me figure out the best solution to this problem: File sharing between 3 laptops and 1 pc (no server software). [more inside]
posted by andrewdunn on Jul 21, 2006 - 11 answers

The UK based company I don't work for is not a fairly large online financial information provider. Understandably we receive no traffic at all from Google and other search engines for searches related to various company names. Recently I discovered that we catalogue all the search terms by which people reach our site and do a WHOIS search on their IP address using public WHOIS servers. We then search this information for things like "users from ms.com searching for takeover and at least one other word." Then we buy shares in whatever company people from ms.com are looking for along with takeovers. We have no relationship with any of the companies involved other than that we get to see their search terms. So far there is a definite correlation between these things, and we have made money. Could this qualify as insider trading? We are exploiting non publically available information that's for sure.
posted by anonymous on Jun 22, 2006 - 14 answers

I have a gig helping someone get up to speed developing marketing capacity for a startup, and one of the first things that we're going to do is make sure good info is coming IN to the company. Please help me figure out the best tools to use! [more inside]
posted by mikel on May 26, 2006 - 1 answer

Linux Printer Share: i'm way over my head, I have a HP 648c USB printer, and I want to use my xbox that runs Debian natively (Xebian) to share the printer. Physical connection is no problem. But I am in way over my head in terms of setting up a simple printer share. It appear possible via Samba, but my experiments didn't pan out. [more inside]
posted by Napierzaza on Apr 24, 2006 - 13 answers

I run Abyss Webserver, and of late.. sometimes when I try to rename/move/delete any folder within htdocs folder, it doesn't let me to. It says access denied. I try removing the read-only attrib, and it comes back. [more inside]
posted by Devileyezz on Mar 10, 2006 - 1 answer

Sharing music between computers via iTunes (using shared library). Anyone know how to do it? [more inside]
posted by crapples on Nov 15, 2005 - 10 answers

Excel experts? Between two Excel files, anyone know how I can reassign the data source file when I'm working on my Mac with files emailed to me by my boss, created on his PC? [more inside]
posted by seaward on Nov 9, 2005 - 3 answers

When you own stock in a company that is being acquired, how do you know wether to sell the shares or let them be converted? [more inside]
posted by quadog on Oct 3, 2005 - 4 answers

How can I share an iTunes library without using iTunes share? [more inside]
posted by Lactoso on Jul 30, 2005 - 10 answers

I'm trying to figure out how to convince my Powerbook to connect to a WinXP share (that part works) and then have write access to the resulting share. [more inside]
posted by socratic on Feb 21, 2005 - 12 answers

WinXP Home Network: Two machines, each running WinXP. I 'm successfully sharing most of the files in a folder, but get "access denied" on some of them. [+] [more inside]
posted by Daddio on Jan 21, 2005 - 6 answers

LackeyFilter: How can my boss share his Palm Desktop info with me over the internet? [more inside]
posted by stonerose on Sep 5, 2004 - 4 answers

DirectActionMicroCharityFilter: So I stumbled on this link and this link at craigslist. Then just above it is this link.

And then I think about the massive pile of books I need to go through and that I probably need to thin the herd - but I also think about the fact that most of the children's books I have are sentimental family gifts I'd be loath to part with for that reason alone, but certainly not any material value. (They're well-loved books, of course.)

And then I think about keeping this sort of thing in mind when I'm trawling thrift stores and garage sales.

And then I think "Hey, that'd make a great website! A place to exchange books! Locally even! Or a data-mining app that would automatically attempt to find matches!"

Punchline inside. [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Aug 8, 2004 - 6 answers

Amateur economists, VCs, MBA students: what's a fair price for a google share? Based on what assumptions? [more inside]
posted by rkent on Aug 6, 2004 - 13 answers

I want to broadcast a single desktop to multiple computers for training purposes on our internal network. I looked at VNC, but it looks like that is only one-to-one viewing. Is there any software to accomplish this with a group (8-10 per session)?
posted by benjh on May 24, 2004 - 6 answers

iTunes question: I set up some playlists within my XP profile. My wife wants to access them in her profile. They don't show up. How can she get them to come up in her profile?
posted by luser on Jan 10, 2004 - 3 answers