You don't own the system you are on, the company does. Their property, their rules. You should not be doing personal business at work. I hate to tell you, but they pay you to do your job not personal business.
They are already doing this internally. 99% of the time when I contact one of their support techs I get someone who I can barely understand over in India or Brazil.
The issue I have with "Cloud" computing, besides it becoming the latest buzz word and craze, is the security concerns. To my knowledge none of the cloud services comply with any of the security regulations.
With that said how many small organizations are using google for email or documents that contain medical information or other regulated items that have strict policies on how personal information is handled?
I have read a few articles by Galen Gruman, the idiot that wrote this. He calls himself a "smart user". I personally think he is a short sighted idiot.
He wants users to be allowed to put anything, application or equipment, on a companies network. That is just plan wrong. So many problems can occur from doing this that will cause a so-called "smart user" to lose their job not to mention the likely hood that someone in IT will lose theirs also for not enforcing company policy.
If something will make the job so much easier, what is the harm in doing some work with putting a proposal together and sending it through the pipeline.
Personally I never got made at someone for trying to make work easier if they did it properly. But there is a limit on resources and just because it makes one persons job easier does not mean that IT will support it. But if it makes 10+ peoples job easier the likelihood of it being tested and approved is better.
Remember the company wants a good ROI.
I hate to disagree, but I have to. IT policy is a law that must be followed. What the problem here is the people creating the law sees only the end goal and not the road that needs to be traveled.
Talk to them and show them what is required of you during the research. Tell them that other ways need to be looked at in achieving the goal before this is implemented.
More harm is done and time lost by people trying to circumvent the policies then it is by sitting down with them and stating the procedures that are done and stating why a different method is needed.
I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out, but I believe what he is talking about is VoIP and not content. Since VoIP is becoming the big thing now days they, the telcos, need to find some way to charge for other companies running VoIP over their pipes or they will become obsolete. Or so they think. Take a power outage and VoIP is useless.
I would like to know about switching servers also. I started out on a PvP server and decided after getting ganked by higher level players everyday to change to a PvE server so I can PvP when I want to. But I do have a mid-level rogue on the PvP server that I miss and would love to finish leveling off.
Easiest thing to do is remember only one to get into the machine and then have a passphrase for an encrypted spreadsheet or a password safe application.
This way you can make your passwords what ever it needs to be without memorizing them but still having them at your fingertips.
I started reading it right after it came out. It weighed a ton and was thicker then most of my school books. The deals you could get in it was great, the articles were good and Alice and Bill made some of the best articles in there.
I stopped reading CS a few years back because there was nothing in there to keep me coming back. I could find better deals on the web. I prefered to find them in one place, CS, but when they started cutting back the ads, well that was it for me.
I do think some of the purests out there do want it to stay more independent, no ties to large corporations.
We need to make sure that when someone loads their new version of Red Hat that they don't see connecting to AOL or being pushed there.
I use Red Hat, I like the way it is progressing. I don't want to see it start going the way of M$.
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You don't own the system you are on, the company does. Their property, their rules. You should not be doing personal business at work. I hate to tell you, but they pay you to do your job not personal business.
They are selling their point of sales machines to Toshiba. They want to become software and service only.
They are already doing this internally. 99% of the time when I contact one of their support techs I get someone who I can barely understand over in India or Brazil.
The issue I have with "Cloud" computing, besides it becoming the latest buzz word and craze, is the security concerns. To my knowledge none of the cloud services comply with any of the security regulations. With that said how many small organizations are using google for email or documents that contain medical information or other regulated items that have strict policies on how personal information is handled?
I have read a few articles by Galen Gruman, the idiot that wrote this. He calls himself a "smart user". I personally think he is a short sighted idiot. He wants users to be allowed to put anything, application or equipment, on a companies network. That is just plan wrong. So many problems can occur from doing this that will cause a so-called "smart user" to lose their job not to mention the likely hood that someone in IT will lose theirs also for not enforcing company policy. If something will make the job so much easier, what is the harm in doing some work with putting a proposal together and sending it through the pipeline. Personally I never got made at someone for trying to make work easier if they did it properly. But there is a limit on resources and just because it makes one persons job easier does not mean that IT will support it. But if it makes 10+ peoples job easier the likelihood of it being tested and approved is better. Remember the company wants a good ROI.
I hate to disagree, but I have to. IT policy is a law that must be followed. What the problem here is the people creating the law sees only the end goal and not the road that needs to be traveled. Talk to them and show them what is required of you during the research. Tell them that other ways need to be looked at in achieving the goal before this is implemented. More harm is done and time lost by people trying to circumvent the policies then it is by sitting down with them and stating the procedures that are done and stating why a different method is needed.
I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out, but I believe what he is talking about is VoIP and not content. Since VoIP is becoming the big thing now days they, the telcos, need to find some way to charge for other companies running VoIP over their pipes or they will become obsolete. Or so they think. Take a power outage and VoIP is useless.
I would like to know about switching servers also. I started out on a PvP server and decided after getting ganked by higher level players everyday to change to a PvE server so I can PvP when I want to. But I do have a mid-level rogue on the PvP server that I miss and would love to finish leveling off.
Easiest thing to do is remember only one to get into the machine and then have a passphrase for an encrypted spreadsheet or a password safe application. This way you can make your passwords what ever it needs to be without memorizing them but still having them at your fingertips.
I started reading it right after it came out. It weighed a ton and was thicker then most of my school books. The deals you could get in it was great, the articles were good and Alice and Bill made some of the best articles in there. I stopped reading CS a few years back because there was nothing in there to keep me coming back. I could find better deals on the web. I prefered to find them in one place, CS, but when they started cutting back the ads, well that was it for me.
rubberbands, that is the way to go.
I run both M$ and Linux both at work and home. I am a systems admin of both M$ and Linux systems and M$ tools keep me on M$. And at home, it's games.
Maybe it is someone that would be black balled if the industry found out they had done this.
Are these the same sources "familiar with the matter" that said they were in talks to begin with?
I do think some of the purests out there do want it to stay more independent, no ties to large corporations. We need to make sure that when someone loads their new version of Red Hat that they don't see connecting to AOL or being pushed there. I use Red Hat, I like the way it is progressing. I don't want to see it start going the way of M$.