The company I work for uses a "As needed" rule to allow this. We, IT, have setup the environment (Mostly XP) so users are user, no admins, and removed the VBS extensions as well. This coupled with several webfilters and out proxy keep us rather save from 99% of what is out there. Are main enry point now is USB drives coming from home, but even they are very limited since users are users and the antivirus software we use catches these rather quickly.
All that is needed is a request to the supervisor and we grant them the access.
I think this is a good questions we have to ask ourselves.
General speaking, most people like it. They like to customize their work space to suit their personality. Why? so your comfortable at work? but why? Your there to work not to sit back and relax. Sure, having a positive environment is a must, but at what cost? If you can't work in a can, find another job. I work in a cube, and am moving soon into an office with another person. This isn't an improvement for me. I will not have a window now, which my cube gave me. I'm also expected to reduce the amount of stuff I have (hard for my job) and use a smaller space. But, I'm not going to look for another job, because I don't need these things to be productive. I don't want to be comfortable at work. Sure, i have pictures and such up, but I don't want to be here longer than I need to, and not having the distractions of comfort, I'm more driven to complete stuff, so I can move on. There is nothing that i keep around that will distract me from my work.
We hae Adobe Element 6 installed on our stanard build, and so when we upgraded tot he new office 2003, there were a lot of issues surrouning the PdfMaker plugin... Not a fun week... seems that the people that had Acrobat pro 6 though, didn't have any trouble with it... very strange..
I jumped the gun on this one by a few weeks and have purchased and assembled my new and shiny HTPC. Looks awesome, but I'm missing a few things... Frontal USB/FireWire, Additional internal storage, a functional built in remote system, (have to use an external receiver). I was given the impression this would be the ultimate case for me, but I was wrong. Not that I don't like it, I was just slightly mislead on the actual functionality... Now you can buy an add on kit for a new VFD that has the IR Receiver built in, but that is another $150 or so... But does come with a great remote. I'm all for these cases, but I was shocked to see what it was missing. Now the D.Vine6 is amazing as it is fully packed, but is restricted to the microATX board...
I think you can assume from the AOL side of the world, the DO only know the "You've got Mail" part. AOL users tend to be the lowest end of the Users specturm... This is from data of over 500 people that I have collected over the last few years.
Did you all not watch that movie!? Come on! There are two Matrixes'... It's that simple. The Keeper as he was called was the first safety net for the first Matrix. Then the Sentinels and the world as it was to them were the protection of the second. Who is to say how many there are in total or if there is only a few, or maybe just the two. And then, this could all be a test of 1 man. Neo as it was to see what the Human mind is capable of doing. I like to think that there is more to it, but that is what I cam up with. Personally, I think that the end will be rather simple, like the beginning. But then it may be rather explosive and action packed too. But I think that the Titles actually give it away... Reloaded: 1st matrix is brought down. Reloaded is into the sub-Matrix Revolutions: What else, Revolutions from within the Matrix to break out. Or what ever they decide it to mean...
Whatever it is, I will be watching it for sure, I can tell you that.
Cheap battery + Expensive Cell phone = little boom! Nice. Just goes to show you that price doesn't always mean you should buy it...
I can see it now... Woman sues battery maker for causing personal injury due to defective device. Company not able to pay the settlement, and so gives user a free lifetime supply of (fixed) product... Such a dilemma... To use it or not to use it...
[Rant on] When the first LOTR-FOTR came out I was ecstatic. I loved the books and loved the first movie. The second movie made me very angry though. I'm not one to disagree with personal interpretation, but to change the story line to suit your own agenda is totally wrong. From the books, Tolkien was aiming to show the world through the eyes of the Hobbits, not the eyes of man. What would be the point? I can't say that the whole movie disgusted me, but in general, I was very disappointed. Changing Faramir into Boromir and then Theoden King into this simpering coward were not good. Neither was changing the hiding location for the people of Edoras. Only the farmers and outliers were at Helms Deep. And what happened to the Ents bring the trees to the rescue of Helms deep. It's almost like Jackson is trying to cut the fantasy down to a minimum. I want to see the Angry Ents (name eludes me, but they were the Ents that had grown still; the trees that you could feel anger from). I want to see Quicksilver get mad about loosing his groves. I want to see Theoden as a man of power after he is awoken from Saruman's magic. What is wrong with that? I don't want to see Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen love story. I would like to see the dinner scene from Fellowship (the book) where Arwen is seated nearly naked at the table. That would have been nice. But not the pout love sick Arwen that is brought to us in the first two films. I think that Peter Jackson could have created a perfect Epic saga that portrayed the story that Tolkien created long ago. Unfortunately he has instead tried to add "crap" into a great Story that needed nothing changed. Yes, I know about length of film, but as we have seen just from this posting alone, that is not something that the fans really care about. We will sit though a 4-hour movie if it is good enough to keep us there. I would sleep, and practically live in the theater to watch all 3 in a row if they were the way they were supposed to be. But not now. I admit, I will still see the ROTK just to see if Jackson has redeemed himself, but I will not be watching the 3-movie release. [Rant off]
I work for a large Oil Company in the North West US. We have roughly 1500 IBM 300PL systems in our inventory. Of those 1500 we have had to replace 700 or so Fujitsu HDDs due to various problems. Fortunately for our sake, IBM was using a mixed hardware pool when our systems were built because out of 1500 systems, all of the Fujitsu drives have now been replaced. Now we are suffering through Maxtor drives, but that is a tale for another day. This to me seemed to be a huge problem. We filed a complaint with IBM on this issue for not having a recall of the effected drives. IBM and all of the service centers in our area know of the problem, but that doesn't seem to be of importance. Not only is this the largest mass failure of a product, but also probably the largest cover-up to protect all of the parties involved. What really takes the cake on this whole issue is the pure audacity of Fujitsu in making this appear to be within the bounds of standard failure. That will keep me from ever using their equipment.
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The company I work for uses a "As needed" rule to allow this. We, IT, have setup the environment (Mostly XP) so users are user, no admins, and removed the VBS extensions as well. This coupled with several webfilters and out proxy keep us rather save from 99% of what is out there. Are main enry point now is USB drives coming from home, but even they are very limited since users are users and the antivirus software we use catches these rather quickly.
All that is needed is a request to the supervisor and we grant them the access.
I think this is a good questions we have to ask ourselves.
General speaking, most people like it. They like to customize their work space to suit their personality. Why? so your comfortable at work? but why? Your there to work not to sit back and relax. Sure, having a positive environment is a must, but at what cost? If you can't work in a can, find another job. I work in a cube, and am moving soon into an office with another person. This isn't an improvement for me. I will not have a window now, which my cube gave me. I'm also expected to reduce the amount of stuff I have (hard for my job) and use a smaller space. But, I'm not going to look for another job, because I don't need these things to be productive. I don't want to be comfortable at work. Sure, i have pictures and such up, but I don't want to be here longer than I need to, and not having the distractions of comfort, I'm more driven to complete stuff, so I can move on. There is nothing that i keep around that will distract me from my work.
my 2 cents...
We hae Adobe Element 6 installed on our stanard build, and so when we upgraded tot he new office 2003, there were a lot of issues surrouning the PdfMaker plugin... Not a fun week... seems that the people that had Acrobat pro 6 though, didn't have any trouble with it... very strange..
I jumped the gun on this one by a few weeks and have purchased and assembled my new and shiny HTPC. Looks awesome, but I'm missing a few things...
Frontal USB/FireWire, Additional internal storage, a functional built in remote system, (have to use an external receiver).
I was given the impression this would be the ultimate case for me, but I was wrong. Not that I don't like it, I was just slightly mislead on the actual functionality... Now you can buy an add on kit for a new VFD that has the IR Receiver built in, but that is another $150 or so... But does come with a great remote.
I'm all for these cases, but I was shocked to see what it was missing. Now the D.Vine6 is amazing as it is fully packed, but is restricted to the microATX board...
Wow, this sounds like windows version modeling. Make each one more expensive and less convienent...
I think you can assume from the AOL side of the world, the DO only know the "You've got Mail" part. AOL users tend to be the lowest end of the Users specturm... This is from data of over 500 people that I have collected over the last few years.
Matrix reloaded:
Did you all not watch that movie!?
Come on! There are two Matrixes'... It's that simple. The Keeper as he was called was the first safety net for the first Matrix. Then the Sentinels and the world as it was to them were the protection of the second. Who is to say how many there are in total or if there is only a few, or maybe just the two. And then, this could all be a test of 1 man. Neo as it was to see what the Human mind is capable of doing. I like to think that there is more to it, but that is what I cam up with. Personally, I think that the end will be rather simple, like the beginning. But then it may be rather explosive and action packed too.
But I think that the Titles actually give it away...
Reloaded: 1st matrix is brought down. Reloaded is into the sub-Matrix
Revolutions: What else, Revolutions from within the Matrix to break out. Or what ever they decide it to mean...
Whatever it is, I will be watching it for sure, I can tell you that.
Cheap battery + Expensive Cell phone = little boom!
Nice. Just goes to show you that price doesn't always mean you should buy it...
I can see it now...
Woman sues battery maker for causing personal injury due to defective device. Company not able to pay the settlement, and so gives user a free lifetime supply of (fixed) product...
Such a dilemma... To use it or not to use it...
Well time for me to drop my 2 cents...
[Rant on]
When the first LOTR-FOTR came out I was ecstatic. I loved the books and loved the first movie. The second movie made me very angry though. I'm not one to disagree with personal interpretation, but to change the story line to suit your own agenda is totally wrong. From the books, Tolkien was aiming to show the world through the eyes of the Hobbits, not the eyes of man. What would be the point? I can't say that the whole movie disgusted me, but in general, I was very disappointed.
Changing Faramir into Boromir and then Theoden King into this simpering coward were not good. Neither was changing the hiding location for the people of Edoras. Only the farmers and outliers were at Helms Deep. And what happened to the Ents bring the trees to the rescue of Helms deep. It's almost like Jackson is trying to cut the fantasy down to a minimum. I want to see the Angry Ents (name eludes me, but they were the Ents that had grown still; the trees that you could feel anger from). I want to see Quicksilver get mad about loosing his groves. I want to see Theoden as a man of power after he is awoken from Saruman's magic. What is wrong with that? I don't want to see Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen love story. I would like to see the dinner scene from Fellowship (the book) where Arwen is seated nearly naked at the table. That would have been nice. But not the pout love sick Arwen that is brought to us in the first two films.
I think that Peter Jackson could have created a perfect Epic saga that portrayed the story that Tolkien created long ago. Unfortunately he has instead tried to add "crap" into a great Story that needed nothing changed. Yes, I know about length of film, but as we have seen just from this posting alone, that is not something that the fans really care about. We will sit though a 4-hour movie if it is good enough to keep us there. I would sleep, and practically live in the theater to watch all 3 in a row if they were the way they were supposed to be. But not now. I admit, I will still see the ROTK just to see if Jackson has redeemed himself, but I will not be watching the 3-movie release.
[Rant off]
I work for a large Oil Company in the North West US. We have roughly 1500 IBM 300PL systems in our inventory. Of those 1500 we have had to replace 700 or so Fujitsu HDDs due to various problems. Fortunately for our sake, IBM was using a mixed hardware pool when our systems were built because out of 1500 systems, all of the Fujitsu drives have now been replaced. Now we are suffering through Maxtor drives, but that is a tale for another day. This to me seemed to be a huge problem. We filed a complaint with IBM on this issue for not having a recall of the effected drives. IBM and all of the service centers in our area know of the problem, but that doesn't seem to be of importance.
Not only is this the largest mass failure of a product, but also probably the largest cover-up to protect all of the parties involved.
What really takes the cake on this whole issue is the pure audacity of Fujitsu in making this appear to be within the bounds of standard failure. That will keep me from ever using their equipment.