Office machines

[caddyman]

Since we have wi-fi in the building, I have been contemplating bringing my own lap top into the office so that I can play such things as scrabulous, or indeed anything requiring an up to date flash application, during lunchtime. We have these shiny new machines in the office with half the facilities disabled including all the USB ports on the front and monitor of the machine (but not on the back…). Since we use flash memory quite a lot for transferring files to laptops –generally PowerPoint presentations – we have managed to have the ports at the front reinstated. I was damned if I was going to crawl under the desk and root around in all the fluff down there to use a memory stick (my OWN memory stick, I might add).

I don’t mind that certain things don’t load and that we don’t have the administration rights to install them ourselves, because it’s generally only a hassle on extra curricular activities. That said, having java disabled can be a pain at times for legitimate reasons, particularly when you are trying to use buttons on an official web site.

Ah, well: mustn’t grumble. A lot of people don’t have as few restrictions as we do on what we can and cannot access over teh intarweb.

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Using USB sticks/CDs to transfer data between PCs is daft - everything you need should be on an accessible central store (mapped network drive). You said you have WiFi in the office so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to access your data from a laptop.

Silly IT policies :)

[jfs.livejournal.com]

At the very least Bry should be able to burn everything on his PC all at once to a DVD ...

I'm not sure I'd put it in the internal mail though.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ah, I have a DVD burner here, but no software to do other than use it as a CD player!

I'd happily back stuff up onto it if allowed, but...