[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting List Stats

[Wayne Dahl]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:20, Mike wrote:
> > .... why do you 'have no choice'?
> > Put in a linux install cd, boot, install and go.
> 
> I'd love to do that, but the last guy who did no longer works at my place of 
> employment. They call it hacking/cracking at my job. Working for a big 
> bureaucratic company has its downs sometimes. 
> 
> Anyway, the DNS server or gateway or some other system has some sort of 
> hardware/software check before it will serve anything of value (and asking 
> questions about that is worse than booting linux.)  I could run linux on my 
> desktop for about 30 minutes. I'd never see the extranet, and then I'd be on 
> unemployment. Not a real good way to make a stand about monopolistic 
> operating systems. 

Unfortunately, this is the attitude of many large companies, mine
included.  In some ways, you can't blame them.  For example, one of our
training machines had some cracker software loaded on it by one of our
new hires.  It was not clear if it was intentional or not since it came
from off the Internet, but as soon as it was discovered, an announcement
was made that ANY unauthorized software found on our machines was
sufficient cause for dismissal and would be carried out immediately.

On the other hand, it really chaps my buns when you change your
wallpaper, have some problem you need the helpdesk for and find them
saying, "Have you changed your wallpaper?"  I'm sorry, but if you have a
network problem or application problem, changing wallpaper is NOT going
to be the cause, but you have far too many idiots working a helpdesk
that don't want to do their jobs just because you made "a change to your
desktop configuration".  I kid you not, I've actually heard helpdesk
people say they wouldn't support the platform if ANY changes were made
to the configuration, even cosmetic ones.

-- 
Wayne Dahl
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