On Apr 11, 2005 12:07 AM, Synthetic Cartoonz
On Monday 11 April 2005 00:03, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 20:33, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 10 April 2005 17:21, John Scott wrote:
Them: "Why did you do that? We don't recommend that. We don't support that."
Perhaps you could suggest to them that their role is to provide the services that their users demand, not to dictate to them what form those needs must take.
This seems to be a trend in IT circles. I get this at work all the time. Our IT dept even decides how we're going to configure and use applications. It's supposed to make it easy on them when they upgrade to a newer version, they just have to nuke the existing configuration in favour of the vendor's, but all it does is frustrate us when we get a workable solution and get told "that that is not how we ought to be doing it".
Dittos. Though, our PC/LAN dudes try to restrict the way we use our Windows PCs primarily for self-preservation. They spend all their time running around and applying patches and cleaning up viruses and don't need more of their time wasted by some pointy-haired manager with only half a clue munging up his system. So, everyone, including developers (including the Unix developers) are treated like idiots.
We (the Unix developers) get around this by never logging into the Novell server on the LAN which pretty much prevents the PC/LAN office from interfering with the "bad" things we do to our PCs.
Yep. I remind them that the only wIndows I use daily are for the view to/from work, and to look at the lake behind my house. As for the other Windows, it runs in vm when needed to test something. That makes it easy to keeep the infestation from getting out of control. Just close the vm. If the Windows-vm crashes to a bsod (ready Ms. Spears) - Ooops! It did it again. Finally, a pop song that's useful for something, we all know they aren't good to listen to. Kinda like using Windows - mindless drivel. John