You know what, your mother needs a backup person. If you're on call, you should plan accordingly. If you're too stupid to make sure that there's a backup person to do what you do, then it's your own damn fault if people get angry at you when your phone goes off in the theatre.
And yeah, there should be a freakin' ban on screaming children in theatres too. Especially if the film is PG and above in rating. Leave your damn kids at home. Better yet, don't have kids.
>>.....but developers are typically smarter than the average Outlook user (hopefully??)....>>
I don't know how many times the first or second day a new developer shows up here and says "I don't have access to x program, please install it" and it IS installed and in Start\Programs, it just wasn't on their desktop as a shortcut.
I always cc' their new boss when I answer these questions, so their new boss knows what kind of idiot they've hired.
So....through anecdotal experience, I'd say developers are just as annoying as normal users.
I'm in MIS, I've been in MIS for 12 years now. It's a pain in the butt to support developers.
Understand we're a complete Microsoft shop, when you take my commments into context below.
HOWEVER, I've always made a deal: If it takes my team longer than an hour to troubleshoot your machine cause you've loaded so much crap on it, then we wipe it clean. Period. So, they get no lockdown so they can develop, and MIS doesn't have to waste time trying to see what frickin' dll's are messed up.
As for developers and licensing, we've gotten them all MSDN Universal. Don't have to worry about it anymore and they can have server software, etc. Your MIS department isn't thinking things through, especially for developers.
Our company uses the Palm as a device that gets sent out with our software loaded on it only.
Our production team must hot sync 100 times a day at least, and that number is growing as our business grows, from a pc and we've never had a problem.
Everyone in the company has a palm and hotsyncs. I've been supporting palms in a business environment for three years, not had this kind of problem.
Granted, they haven't disclosed what pc brands. But come on.....I know in my experience the correlation between motherboards frying and hotsyncing does not exist.
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You know what, your mother needs a backup person. If you're on call, you should plan accordingly. If you're too stupid to make sure that there's a backup person to do what you do, then it's your own damn fault if people get angry at you when your phone goes off in the theatre.
And yeah, there should be a freakin' ban on screaming children in theatres too. Especially if the film is PG and above in rating. Leave your damn kids at home. Better yet, don't have kids.
>>.....but developers are typically smarter than the average Outlook user (hopefully??) ....>>
I don't know how many times the first or second day a new developer shows up here and says "I don't have access to x program, please install it" and it IS installed and in Start\Programs, it just wasn't on their desktop as a shortcut.
I always cc' their new boss when I answer these questions, so their new boss knows what kind of idiot they've hired.
So....through anecdotal experience, I'd say developers are just as annoying as normal users.
I'm in MIS, I've been in MIS for 12 years now. It's a pain in the butt to support developers.
Understand we're a complete Microsoft shop, when you take my commments into context below.
HOWEVER, I've always made a deal: If it takes my team longer than an hour to troubleshoot your machine cause you've loaded so much crap on it, then we wipe it clean. Period. So, they get no lockdown so they can develop, and MIS doesn't have to waste time trying to see what frickin' dll's are messed up.
As for developers and licensing, we've gotten them all MSDN Universal. Don't have to worry about it anymore and they can have server software, etc. Your MIS department isn't thinking things through, especially for developers.
Our company uses the Palm as a device that gets sent out with our software loaded on it only. Our production team must hot sync 100 times a day at least, and that number is growing as our business grows, from a pc and we've never had a problem. Everyone in the company has a palm and hotsyncs. I've been supporting palms in a business environment for three years, not had this kind of problem. Granted, they haven't disclosed what pc brands. But come on.....I know in my experience the correlation between motherboards frying and hotsyncing does not exist.