IANAL, but i'm pretty sure that use of that software would be illegal.
Unless the work machines are only to be used for work purposes, and alternative facilities are made available for personal usage during lunch times, for example, then there's a high probability that it would fall foul of Human Rights legislation, specifically rights to privacy.
It's for this same reason that I can't read staff email boxes to make sure they're being used only for work purposes. Of course i'm capable of it, but unless there's a court order requiring me to open the box, a signed document from the Head and ICT Manager stating that there is an ongoing disciplinary matter being investigated, or a tech issue with a particular member of staff, those boxes stay locked up to anyone but the staff member.
Unless the supervisor was a very large guy who could easily take on your entire office, he needed a swift kick in the balls.
I work in a secondary school, and I can guarantee you that even if a student was blocking the exit while the fire alarm was going off, they'd get tackled to the floor and dragged kicking and screaming outside.
My responsibilties don't end with my own safety; I need to make sure everyone else is safe, too.
Sounds like you shouldn't be using roaming profiles.
You need to teach your users to make proper use of networked storage, including local copies and synchronisation if work is done off-site. Copying all of the users' profile over the network every time they log on must cripple your network in the morning.
3. Users must email their manager every 10 minutes to let them know that they're online.
Start with that, then when the boss complains tell him you'll investigate a more suitable solution. Spend 2 days looking at web comics and reading http://www.notalwaysright.com/ then make the RDP session inactivity timeout 10 minutes.
TFA states that they host child porn. You want your IP address linked to THAT?
It's tinfoil hat time, but i'm willing to bet that simply browsing to a domain linked with child porn, even if it's only a sub-domain, is enough to get some collar-feeling, starting from below your belt.
1. Download Linux Live CD (700mb).
2. Boot to Linux Live CD. Find out your hardware isn't supported as MoBo is new.
3. Download different Live CD.
4. Repeat 2 and 3.
5. Find Live CD which allows you to boot X. You're not a console monkey, so you need a GUI.
6a. Wireless network doesn't work "out of the box." Find / make 30m patch lead to go from back of PC downstairs to your router. Download NDISWrapper and firmware. Configure wireless networking. Alternatively;
6b. Look online for help using dd and sdiff, as you've never, ever heard of these applications.
7. Read three different forums full of "OMG go bk 2 winbl0wz, n00b!11" posts regarding the same issue until you find one person who has managed to pry the information you need out of somebody with a small sense of community.
8. Take image of Windows partition. Make coffee while you wait.
Total time to complete, with downloading images: 9 hours 40 minutes.
Total time to reinstall Windows XP, patch, and install games: 5 hours.
THAT'S how tough it is. We're not all Linux users.
We use Prism App Manager where I work to perform remote installations, and it's appalling.
Prism is based upon taking a baseline image and checking for changes after an installation, which in itself is fine. You will get an identical installation of every package each time.
The issue arrises when you use an old package on a newly patched machine, and it overwrites a patched file with an older, unpatched version. This can happen when installing Office 2007 on a machine, then running an Office 2000 package, and is a real ballache when you've just ghosted a machine. (We have to use both side-by-side for continuity in coursework packages; A poorly thought out purchasing decision by the PHB gave us all the hard work. We should have just said "We're not installing it." and taken the flak, but hey... You live and learn...)
Anyway, this is offtopic; The guy wants disk imaging, not distributed app management.
PoliticThink:- To have all of the necessary statistics and information regarding public interest, scientific research, and expert opinion in a specific subject, but to decide on an act totally against the conclusions of those informations.
Being the only two people in the area who have the tech, you take the back roads which nobody else used, because they don't have the enabled tech to tell them to not use the interstate.
10% of the users using 90% of the bandwidth still leaves 10% for Grandpa to check his email and your sister to update her MySpaz.
Why punish those who actually USE what they paid for? I've had the same contract since BlueYonder "real" unlimited connections, and my usage hasn't changed. All that's changed is as soon as ive watched a couple of iPlayer programs, my downstream drops from 250k to 100k. My dad, mum, and brother don't notice, so there's 75% who don't understand and aren't affected. Only we know, and only we use it.
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IANAL, but i'm pretty sure that use of that software would be illegal.
Unless the work machines are only to be used for work purposes, and alternative facilities are made available for personal usage during lunch times, for example, then there's a high probability that it would fall foul of Human Rights legislation, specifically rights to privacy.
It's for this same reason that I can't read staff email boxes to make sure they're being used only for work purposes. Of course i'm capable of it, but unless there's a court order requiring me to open the box, a signed document from the Head and ICT Manager stating that there is an ongoing disciplinary matter being investigated, or a tech issue with a particular member of staff, those boxes stay locked up to anyone but the staff member.
They have 800MHz, 256MB RAM PC's running CAD software and engraving machines in the D&T dept here.
Makes me cringe to go and do anything as simple as replace a mouse; It's a 20 minute process to plug in the mouse and boot to a useable state.
PS/2 only.
Unless the supervisor was a very large guy who could easily take on your entire office, he needed a swift kick in the balls.
I work in a secondary school, and I can guarantee you that even if a student was blocking the exit while the fire alarm was going off, they'd get tackled to the floor and dragged kicking and screaming outside.
My responsibilties don't end with my own safety; I need to make sure everyone else is safe, too.
Sounds like you shouldn't be using roaming profiles.
You need to teach your users to make proper use of networked storage, including local copies and synchronisation if work is done off-site. Copying all of the users' profile over the network every time they log on must cripple your network in the morning.
Windows Se7en
It'll kill your wife, cut her head off, gift wrap it, send it to you, and allow you to edit the movie in Windows Movie Maker like never before!
3. Users must email their manager every 10 minutes to let them know that they're online.
Start with that, then when the boss complains tell him you'll investigate a more suitable solution. Spend 2 days looking at web comics and reading http://www.notalwaysright.com/ then make the RDP session inactivity timeout 10 minutes.
Wait for contract negotiation time.
TFA states that they host child porn. You want your IP address linked to THAT?
It's tinfoil hat time, but i'm willing to bet that simply browsing to a domain linked with child porn, even if it's only a sub-domain, is enough to get some collar-feeling, starting from below your belt.
Upon further investigation (R'ingTFA), I see you also wish for image comparisons.
Prism certainly doesn't include this function.
Yeah, just like GP said... Easy!
http://www.linux4dummies.com/WTFisSDBandhowdoIfindoutwhatmydriveactuallyis?
Mod parent -1 Sadist.
1. Download Linux Live CD (700mb).
2. Boot to Linux Live CD. Find out your hardware isn't supported as MoBo is new.
3. Download different Live CD.
4. Repeat 2 and 3.
5. Find Live CD which allows you to boot X. You're not a console monkey, so you need a GUI.
6a. Wireless network doesn't work "out of the box." Find / make 30m patch lead to go from back of PC downstairs to your router. Download NDISWrapper and firmware. Configure wireless networking. Alternatively;
6b. Look online for help using dd and sdiff, as you've never, ever heard of these applications.
7. Read three different forums full of "OMG go bk 2 winbl0wz, n00b!11" posts regarding the same issue until you find one person who has managed to pry the information you need out of somebody with a small sense of community.
8. Take image of Windows partition. Make coffee while you wait.
Total time to complete, with downloading images: 9 hours 40 minutes.
Total time to reinstall Windows XP, patch, and install games: 5 hours.
THAT'S how tough it is. We're not all Linux users.
We use Prism App Manager where I work to perform remote installations, and it's appalling.
Prism is based upon taking a baseline image and checking for changes after an installation, which in itself is fine. You will get an identical installation of every package each time.
The issue arrises when you use an old package on a newly patched machine, and it overwrites a patched file with an older, unpatched version. This can happen when installing Office 2007 on a machine, then running an Office 2000 package, and is a real ballache when you've just ghosted a machine. (We have to use both side-by-side for continuity in coursework packages; A poorly thought out purchasing decision by the PHB gave us all the hard work. We should have just said "We're not installing it." and taken the flak, but hey... You live and learn...)
Anyway, this is offtopic; The guy wants disk imaging, not distributed app management.
That last bit is the perlre for a zero-width negative look-behind assertion
It certainly looks like English, but I have no idea what that means. Whatever it is, it sure seems to help cure insomnia.
Wrong closing tag.
You mean [/pedant].
I guess here we're seeing /.'s finger-in-ear "lalalala not listening!' bias here.
Asking for quantitative / qualititative data supporting an arguement is now flamebait? I guess we should all just "trust them" then.
That's the beauty of the English language; It's contextual.
Besides, we've all seen the email chain-letter with the bdaly splleed wrdos.
... Black and White series?
I've not played B&W2, but B&W was certainly playable without killing everything within your field of vision.
Developers often aren't picky.
Flamebait or funny, you decide.
Stop watching X-Factor and Spooks. You can become an empowered and informed citizen, but the TV won't spoon feed it to you.
Become politically active. Have a say, and say it loudly, clearly, and in a way a lot of people can understand.
Isn't that a NewSpeak word?
PoliticThink:- To have all of the necessary statistics and information regarding public interest, scientific research, and expert opinion in a specific subject, but to decide on an act totally against the conclusions of those informations.
Only in parking spaces 26-76, though.
No you don't.
Being the only two people in the area who have the tech, you take the back roads which nobody else used, because they don't have the enabled tech to tell them to not use the interstate.
You still get a clear journey.
All of them.
In courts, they call this "Precident."
How to tell if you spend too much time on /. Reason #255
- Your two year old child is 2.5 years old.
CAPTCHA: belted
10% of the users using 90% of the bandwidth still leaves 10% for Grandpa to check his email and your sister to update her MySpaz.
Why punish those who actually USE what they paid for? I've had the same contract since BlueYonder "real" unlimited connections, and my usage hasn't changed. All that's changed is as soon as ive watched a couple of iPlayer programs, my downstream drops from 250k to 100k. My dad, mum, and brother don't notice, so there's 75% who don't understand and aren't affected. Only we know, and only we use it.