Re: [NTLK] [OT] Apple purchasing large capacity mini hard drives from Toshiba

From: Doug Augustyn (optix_at_six5535.org)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 10:48:14 PDT


Some of us have been doing this for a while now. It's not hard to implement
code-wise, but the fast user-switching could be a problem, and without some
kind of "dock locking mechanism" this would never be feasable.

I do something similar. Given, not with an iPod, because I don't own one. If
someone wants me to write the software to do what is described, be sure to
send me an iPOD and a G5 to test it. <snicker>

Responding to Martin Joseph's comment:
||I am surprised that Apple has not yet made the iPod into a automatic
||portable Home directory container... With Panther and fast user
||switching, whenever the iPod is plugged in, you could be offered the
||login screen, and when you logout it could say "It's safe to remove
||iPod now...
||
||This is a no brainer and MUST be right around the corner.

-- 
My other computer is a Newton UMP2k
http://www.SiX5535.org
-- 
This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries
Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/
WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jun 08 2004 - 08:28:42 PDT