A competent system administrator can most definitely handle an environment where only administrators have admin rights on individual workstations.
The unix style model where admins install and configure software and users run it can work in a Windows domain/active-directory environment just fine when it's properly managed.
Is it more work for the admin? How much work is restoring hosed workstations to functionality?
A friend's computer shared by the entire household was unendingly compromised. We restored XP many times from scratch but the result was always the same, within a month XP was toes up again.
I'm sorry, but if this is happening to your Windows machine, then you are a complete and utter idiot and this will happen no matter what platform and/or OS you run.
It's freaking amazing how secure you can be when you don't automatically click 'yes' on every dialogue box that pops up in your face and you keep-up with your patches. The vast majority if exploits out there are reverse-engineered from the patches.
There are plenty of reasonably intelligent people who run even Windows for several years without ever being compromised.
Job sites need some means to prevent recruiters simply doing keyword searches through resumes, but never reading past your phone number.
Nothing is more annoying than some C-average H.R. major who didn't even bother to look at your name until the phone was ringing, say "So tell me what it is you do!"
I do not want such morons to "schedule some face time" with me, nor do I want them to "touch base" to "keep you up to speed."
'The Arrival' was Geek Chic! Charley Sheen's character secretly hacked a neighborhood's satellite dishes to serve as an array of radio telescopes! How cool is that!
My impression has always been that IT companies should have a CTO and a non-IT companies should have a CIO.
But. . . these are just silly corporate titles and their relevance all boils down to how willing either are to listen to the people who do the actual work.
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This is like those lame, drug & alcohol-free dances, the local Kiwanis lodge always sponsored, but no one ever went to?
-CR
. . . but I don't want to give the Chinese my bookmarks and history!
-CR
Now I feel guilty about ad-blocking the banners on there. . .
-CR
A competent system administrator can most definitely handle an environment where only administrators have admin rights on individual workstations.
The unix style model where admins install and configure software and users run it can work in a Windows domain/active-directory environment just fine when it's properly managed.
Is it more work for the admin? How much work is restoring hosed workstations to functionality?
Don't blame the tools.
-CR
A friend's computer shared by the entire household was unendingly compromised. We restored XP many times from scratch but the result was always the same, within a month XP was toes up again.
I'm sorry, but if this is happening to your Windows machine, then you are a complete and utter idiot and this will happen no matter what platform and/or OS you run.
It's freaking amazing how secure you can be when you don't automatically click 'yes' on every dialogue box that pops up in your face and you keep-up with your patches. The vast majority if exploits out there are reverse-engineered from the patches.
There are plenty of reasonably intelligent people who run even Windows for several years without ever being compromised.
-CR
Yes there was! A car with just such a carburator was used to get all those people with rifles off that grassy knoll.
Job sites need some means to prevent recruiters simply doing keyword searches through resumes, but never reading past your phone number.
Nothing is more annoying than some C-average H.R. major who didn't even bother to look at your name until the phone was ringing, say "So tell me what it is you do!"
I do not want such morons to "schedule some face time" with me, nor do I want them to "touch base" to "keep you up to speed."
-CR
The first thing you need to do is have this manager bronzed!
But yeah, you need an IP lawyer.
-CR
Clones Wars is just a short. . . was two minutes long, max.
What crap.
-CR
'The Arrival' was Geek Chic! Charley Sheen's character secretly hacked a neighborhood's satellite dishes to serve as an array of radio telescopes! How cool is that!
My impression has always been that IT companies should have a CTO and a non-IT companies should have a CIO.
But. . . these are just silly corporate titles and their relevance all boils down to how willing either are to listen to the people who do the actual work.