Im in a german research institute, and there the Problem is the same. We have to collaborate with plenty of other institutes in the World, but the IT guys (as an example) only wanted to allow access to code repositorys if someone has a valid login in our institute. It took 4 Months to tell them that this will not work, and the idea is stupid. There are several other things where it normally takes 6months waiting time and at least a full week in writing mails, phoning people, paperwork,... (which would cost maybe 5 min working time) only to have the smallest service, even when your Experiment/Project fully quotes that this is mandatory for the Project. In my case in the end, i just swacrifices 50 eur/month and bought a dedicated host at a german ISP and develop there all the services needed for the Project, and ignore more or less everything which they do inside the institute. If this will not be possible in the future, ill just play hangman during worktime instead of wasting time to circumvent (mostly stupid) restrictions from the IT Group.
Adds which are still images are ok, since they only need some amount of memory (which is fortunatly cheap) but many adds are either animated gifs or flash. Flash i block by default everywhere, if a website needs flash, ill not use it. A Company which chooses flash is a company less which i might intend to work with.
Animated gifs are also blocked, because the just render you mad after a while, Iam working on a dual screen machine and some blinking Browser is exactly what you dont want to have.
Additionally animated Gifs are using a lot of more memory, bandwith and cpu time (more expressed when you use tabs in browsers) since normal gifs. (Not talking over the flash crap... the plugin on the mac really uses many recources !)
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Im in a german research institute, and there the Problem is the same. ... (which would cost maybe 5 min working time) only to have the smallest service, even when your Experiment/Project fully quotes that this is mandatory for the Project.
We have to collaborate with plenty of other institutes in the World, but the IT guys (as an example) only wanted to allow access to code repositorys if someone has a valid login in our institute. It took 4 Months to tell them that this will not work, and the idea is stupid.
There are several other things where it normally takes 6months waiting time and at least a full week in writing mails, phoning people, paperwork,
In my case in the end, i just swacrifices 50 eur/month and bought a dedicated host at a german ISP and develop there all the services needed for the Project, and ignore more or less everything which they do inside the institute.
If this will not be possible in the future, ill just play hangman during worktime instead of wasting time to circumvent (mostly stupid) restrictions from the IT Group.
Adds which are still images are ok, since they only need some amount of memory (which is fortunatly cheap) but many adds are either animated gifs or flash. Flash i block by default everywhere, if a website needs flash, ill not use it. A Company which chooses flash is a company less which i might intend to work with. Animated gifs are also blocked, because the just render you mad after a while, Iam working on a dual screen machine and some blinking Browser is exactly what you dont want to have. Additionally animated Gifs are using a lot of more memory, bandwith and cpu time (more expressed when you use tabs in browsers) since normal gifs. (Not talking over the flash crap ... the plugin on the mac really uses many recources !)