OK, so my new Mac will arrive next week. Can power users fill me in on best practices for setting it up? [more inside]
posted by Admiral Haddock on Apr 17, 2009 - 16 answers

What questions do library users most often ask? [more inside]
posted by bad grammar on Mar 12, 2009 - 55 answers

I want to read as many things as I can about early adaptors of technologies of yesteryear (like the first people who jumped on the radio, transistors, calculators etc.) Do you know of any articles/books/people studying this? [more inside]
posted by melodykramer on Feb 17, 2009 - 14 answers

I'd like to set up a handful of posts (or pages, it really doesn't matter) to be editable by specific people. If I have 10 posts, I want to allow 10 different people to each edit "their" page. They should not be able to do anything else, meaning no editing of other pages, no creation of new pages, no deleting their page. Just a login directing them to the edit form of their page. I can't find any sort of plugin to do this. Do you know of one? In the absence of a plugin, any other ideas on how to accomplish this?
posted by ericc on Feb 5, 2009 - 2 answers

Help me figure out a CRM/Sync solution! I'm going crazy trying to figure out a good solution for a small firm; need to sync contacts, more inside... [more inside]
posted by vrdx on Jan 11, 2009 - 3 answers

Question about changing my terminal prompt (and other matters) in an OS X Bash shell. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Oct 15, 2008 - 3 answers

Drupal: How do I automatically assign users into groups when they register? Is this something I can do with Organic Groups? Profile tags? A different module? [more inside]
posted by l33tpolicywonk on Aug 4, 2008 - 4 answers

Built a little website, and now would like the world to see it. How best to do this? [more inside]
posted by littlerobothead on Jun 4, 2008 - 9 answers

Is there a way/program to log into a Windows XP Pro user's desktop without their password (sort of like a master password?). Let me explain... [more inside]
posted by jspierre on Dec 8, 2007 - 16 answers

Looking for a multiple user CMS/blog solution for our website. [more inside]
posted by shinynewnick on Oct 22, 2007 - 12 answers

What is the most striaghtforward solution for setting up user accounts with quotas for printing on a small closed office network, mixed Mac OSX 10.4 (mostly, PPC and one Intel) and Windows XP (one machine), printing to a HP 3390 laser all-in-one? [more inside]
posted by spitbull on Dec 26, 2006 - 3 answers

Where is the best place to store my MP3 collection on my Linux (Debian) PC? [more inside]
posted by DZ-015 on Nov 18, 2006 - 9 answers

Could you host a website behind a cable modem with some crappy hardware? [more inside]
posted by dentata on Oct 11, 2006 - 21 answers

How can I clear the 'other users folder' list from outlook file menu [more inside]
posted by Svea on Aug 14, 2006 - 2 answers

I've got a web server that we've just put into our DMZ. I need to be able to grant the web developers the ability to manage user accounts, but I don't want them to be administrators (in other words: regular users who can manage other user accounts: change passwords, create new ones, delete old ones, etc). [more inside]
posted by Spoonman on Jul 24, 2006 - 2 answers

Managing User Permissions: I'm reworking an existing system that has a fairly granular permission system and am looking to make it easier to use. At the risk of sounding like a complete clown¹, I've recently seen at least one OS permission system where permissions are encoded with ids that are (I think) all powers of 2, which allows the system to discern whether a user has access to a given permission from the sum of the user's permission ids. Can someone explain how this works? [more inside]
posted by yerfatma on Mar 21, 2006 - 16 answers

On my Mac OS X 10.3.5 machine, I have two user accounts. Is it possible to set up the Garageband music software so that one of the user accounts contains only the original installation of Garageband loops and effects... and the other user account contains the original installation, plus all other loops and effects I've installed from subsequent Jam Packs?
posted by skylar on Jan 2, 2005 - 3 answers

As part of an upcoming site redesign my office is considering the pros and cons of allowing visitors to customize content. Without going into too much detail such as what kind of content will be customizable and how, can folks recommend sites that they think do customization well?
posted by terrapin on Sep 10, 2004 - 4 answers

Windows XP Home. I would like to control access to certain folders so that other users can't access them. Is there either:

A. A way as administrator to hide the folders, and then somehow prevent other users from accessing the "Show hidden files and folders" option in explorer:

B. A FREE utility to control access to folders. I have searched and searched, but I can't find any completely free ones.

Thank you! [more inside]
posted by eas98 on Aug 5, 2004 - 9 answers

Know of any software that will let multiple users edit a wiki-like document without requiring a central server or network access? [...] [more inside]
posted by jeb on Jan 29, 2004 - 11 answers