I work for a large software company. No names, but we're talking over $1B in cash on hand, and we probably have as high a percentage of employees who are software developers as any company.
As a general rule, developers don't go to IT with problems until they've run out of options. I have a separate IDE hard drive with a ghost'ed image of my primary machine that I've used on several occassions to save my ass and get back to coding when I don't have time for some IT clown to spend a day looking at my machine and then deciding to rebuild it.
Personally, I would be about as effective as a chocolate fireman if I had to work within the type of constraints you've defined. I waste enough of my time as it is getting around barricades put up by IT.
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I work for a large software company. No names, but we're talking over $1B in cash on hand, and we probably have as high a percentage of employees who are software developers as any company. As a general rule, developers don't go to IT with problems until they've run out of options. I have a separate IDE hard drive with a ghost'ed image of my primary machine that I've used on several occassions to save my ass and get back to coding when I don't have time for some IT clown to spend a day looking at my machine and then deciding to rebuild it. Personally, I would be about as effective as a chocolate fireman if I had to work within the type of constraints you've defined. I waste enough of my time as it is getting around barricades put up by IT.