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Remote Management and User Consequences?
NNWizard asks: "I work in a large university in Belgium where the people in charge of university computer systems want to install LANDesk on every single computer connecting to the university network. The aim is to be able to manage software and provide centralized remote user support. In the old days, every department had computer guys dedicated to the department, and they knew all about the users and their needs. Now, they want to make the management of computer resources global. In most non-engineering faculties this is well accepted, however in the Applied Sciences Faculty the users are computer savvy -- they do not like the idea of giving out control of their computers to people they don't know. What experience does Slashdot have with such a situation? Was the deployment of LANDesk (or a similar software package) a good or a bad thing for the users? How were the privacy issues tackled? Were people still able to use their computers the way they wanted to use them?"
Um, your point? (Other than let us all know you are a bureaucratic control freak?) Where do you profit by devoting all this effort into stamping into everyone's head that they do not own the computer?
The 'My' in My Machine can also mean "The machine assigned to me by the company to get my work done'.
Let me guess, you're from the psuedo-side of IT - the Fix-It Monkeys, rather than the software developers. All you do is play with install disks and poke around with config files. Both the software on the install disks and the config files were not created by you. You're a trained monkey, nothing else. You're not an artist, you're a tracer.