Julio Santos

While waiting for the macbook pro, I reshuffled my systems at home. My thinkpad becomes the main system, the old main system becomes Morgane’s computer, Morgane’s computer becomes a pile of pc parts behind the couch.

While I was waiting for the mac (it’s so sweet btw! I’ll talk about it later), Fabienne and I shared the thinkpad. Nothing wrong with that of course, but the whole trillian thing was a total mess to set up for more than one account on the same computer.

After banging my head against the wall, trying to have my contacts load when *I* log on, and her contacts load when *she* logs on, as opposed to mine no matter what, here’s what made it work:

- When creating trillian profiles (one per user), make sure that:
+ profiles have the same name as the users
+ *disable* automatically log on
+ don’t use the default preferences location. instead make it point to the user’s “my documents” for example
- no password. well, a blank one
- edit the trillian shortcuts and add /profile bob if you’re bob. for example:
“C:\Program Files\Trillian\trillian.exe” /profile bob

whew