Steven Tylock wrote: > > But if you had a new office space to move into, and management decided to > install a new fob based system, what would you choose to put in? >
Whatever you choose, make sure that: 1) it's not a complete pain to use 2) getting out is always easy At some point I worked at a site that rented space in a computer room. To access the computer room, you had to enter a little cabin, then the door behind you would close, and you had to put your finger on a finger print reader. Once in the cabin, the only way out was to get a good reading and access the computer room, or, get three bad readings and get back out while some loud bell would ring, and big red lights would flash. Some of us had dry skin, or whatever, but had huge problems with this, we'd have to go through this little dance 5 or 6 times before we'd get a good reading. The excuse we were given was that there was something wrong with our fingers (and no, I did not sue my mother) ! In the end, I made every effort not to go there, so if I prioritized my tasks to make sure that any task involving going through this humiliation would be right at the bottom of the list. Worst: The same finger print reading procedure was to be used to get out (to know who is in, and who is out + it'd check your mass). Once, after a long night of work inside the room, where I wanted to try one last thing to fix some problem before I went to the washroom, I eventually decided I could no longer wait, needed to go, and could fix it after, well, I could not get out, I threaten to do my business in a corner, or start a fire to get the emergency doors to open, and finally they phone somebody somewhere to lower the security level so that the reading did not have to be as perfect and the damn machine would let me out. That is the last time I went there, and made it clear I was not going to renew my contract if I needed to go back in there. I'm sure it was a very safe system. -- Yves. http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2008/FreeRunner/first_look/ http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2008/FreeRunner/premier_coup_d_%c5%93il/.fr _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
