How about just being able to turn off some Javascript commands. I don't mind mouse-over and text on the status bar, but I would like to be able to stop the new windows.
It would make no difference. The moon is constantly bombarded by radiation, and this would be only a tiny fraction of the force of some of the collisions that the moon has had.
In my last job my boss and I supported 120 NT workstations, 3 NT servers, 10 laser printers, 4 line printers, 8 Zebra barcode printers, an Intermec RF barcode system with 60 terminals, 40 text based terminal, an AIX box running ERP software, and a phone system. We maintained all of this while going live on a new ERP with the required custom programming and training.
PC support requirements are only partially a function of how many machines you have to support. It also has a great deal to do with your setup. We ran roaming profiles on identically configured machines so we could swap the box and have 90+ percent of our users up and running from any failure in 5 minuets. We also pushed as many updates as possible using login scripts and used centrally administered antivirus software. But the most important thing that we did was to lock the workstation down so that users couldn't install software. We also had support from HR and upper management for disciplining users that didn't follow our guidelines.
Actually, a better windows prank is to find someone who has a lot of icons on their desktop, hit print screen to copy it to the clipboard, paste into paint and save it in the windows directory. Then you move all of the icons that you can off of the desktop and change the wallpaper to the picture of the old desktop and make sure that the icons that have to stay on the desktop overlay the icons on the background. Most people can't figure out why the programs don't start when they double-click on the icons.
The three places that I have worked on it recently are a voicemail system and an Intermec barcode terminal controller at my last employer and a radio automation system at my current employer. In all cases it is used because it is rock-stable. On the voicemail system - it just ran. When I left the company it had been up for about a year with no reboots. On the barcode controller the Intermec software, not OS/2, required the only reboots that were done. The computer that runs the automation system controls two satellite receivers and four DAT decks. It runs 24/7 putting some satellite content directly on air, some on tape, pulling some programs from tape to air and inserting promos and station Ids that are recorded on it's hard drive.
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How about just being able to turn off some Javascript commands. I don't mind mouse-over and text on the status bar, but I would like to be able to stop the new windows.
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It would make no difference. The moon is constantly bombarded by radiation, and this would be only a tiny fraction of the force of some of the collisions that the moon has had.
PC support requirements are only partially a function of how many machines you have to support. It also has a great deal to do with your setup. We ran roaming profiles on identically configured machines so we could swap the box and have 90+ percent of our users up and running from any failure in 5 minuets. We also pushed as many updates as possible using login scripts and used centrally administered antivirus software. But the most important thing that we did was to lock the workstation down so that users couldn't install software. We also had support from HR and upper management for disciplining users that didn't follow our guidelines.
Actually, a better windows prank is to find someone who has a lot of icons on their desktop, hit print screen to copy it to the clipboard, paste into paint and save it in the windows directory. Then you move all of the icons that you can off of the desktop and change the wallpaper to the picture of the old desktop and make sure that the icons that have to stay on the desktop overlay the icons on the background. Most people can't figure out why the programs don't start when they double-click on the icons.
The three places that I have worked on it recently are a voicemail system and an Intermec barcode terminal controller at my last employer and a radio automation system at my current employer. In all cases it is used because it is rock-stable. On the voicemail system - it just ran. When I left the company it had been up for about a year with no reboots. On the barcode controller the Intermec software, not OS/2, required the only reboots that were done. The computer that runs the automation system controls two satellite receivers and four DAT decks. It runs 24/7 putting some satellite content directly on air, some on tape, pulling some programs from tape to air and inserting promos and station Ids that are recorded on it's hard drive.
Actually, this is being done by Indiana University.