Comments on: Never travel with The Man’s computer http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer Picking out patterns in the chaos Wed, 16 May 2012 21:04:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: JonR http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2556 JonR Fri, 11 May 2007 09:58:15 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2556 as a recent mac covert, i blame the inherent insecurity of windows and its tendency to make it easy-peasy for vanilla users to bork their machines. this has made IT administrators paranoid about giving users and rights whatsoever and this has led to a kind of adversarial relationship between them and their users. as a recent mac covert, i blame the inherent insecurity of windows and its tendency to make it easy-peasy for vanilla users to bork their machines. this has made IT administrators paranoid about giving users and rights whatsoever and this has led to a kind of adversarial relationship between them and their users.

]]> By: Kevin Anderson http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2555 Kevin Anderson Fri, 04 May 2007 17:03:44 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2555 In the end, yes, this is what we did most of the time. I did favours for our offsite support team, and they in turn did favours for me, like sharing the local admin password with me. But support is not always so supportive. And there are a fair number of places where the support is outsourced. They might not so be helpful for any number of reasons, sometimes even because it might not be in their own narrowly defined economic self interest to be helpful. Just as a for instance, mind you. ;) In the end, yes, this is what we did most of the time. I did favours for our offsite support team, and they in turn did favours for me, like sharing the local admin password with me.

But support is not always so supportive. And there are a fair number of places where the support is outsourced. They might not so be helpful for any number of reasons, sometimes even because it might not be in their own narrowly defined economic self interest to be helpful. Just as a for instance, mind you. ;)

]]> By: Josh Turbs http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2554 Josh Turbs Thu, 03 May 2007 21:01:24 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/05/03/never-travel-with-the-mans-computer#comment-2554 Can you not just get someone to override the admin rights on the locked down PC? Can you not just get someone to override the admin rights on the locked down PC?

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