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Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible?

Posted by timothy on 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."

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  1. I'm glad I'm not the only one by dave562 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to throttle just about every OSX user I've ever met.

    1. Re:I'm glad I'm not the only one by dave562 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Whatever. Why don't you go back to making some k-gay Web 2.0 animated graphics for your boyfriend's garage sale? Oh yeah, be sure to blog about it and update your Twitter feed so that all of your Facebook friends know where to go after they leave the coffee shop. ;)~

  2. Re:the correct solution by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    Create a link from your machine to his. Save the file local to his machine instead of yours (via the link). Share out your link to him. He'll actually be taking the long way around back to his own box.

  3. Re:file server? by Rand+Race · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please come work for my design studio, someone who can pull multi-terabyte file-servers out of their ass will help my budgeting issues immensely.

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  4. Re:the correct solution by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why inconvenience yourself? Just turn off file sharing for 30 seconds, then turn it back on. Same effect for him, no interruption for you. For extra fun, you can automate this in a couple of likes of AppleScript and run it in a cron job with osascript.

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  5. Re:the correct solution by Wain13001 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now go run more scripts, server monkey.

    but he's a server monkey WITHOUT a server!

    Haven't you been paying attention?!?!?!???

  6. Re:the correct solution by CityZen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hotdogs have meat in them???

  7. Re:the correct solution by Per+Wigren · · Score: 3, Funny

    What exactly did you expect from a guy that starts his post with "This. "

    That.

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