I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun!
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace
at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based). Is it possible that
they have put a block on it? I checked, and got the same, on my company
Bruce: Nice Dilbert reference. :-)
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On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun!
Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-)
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on
myspace
at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash
--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling
> my fun!
> >
>
> Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-)
To be fair, in one of my previous companies, the IT guy gave me a fixed ip
address so I could put my Classic II on the lan (no dchp) via an
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:51 AM, John Niven wrote:
To be fair, in one of my previous companies, the IT guy gave me a
fixed ip address so I could put my Classic II on the lan (no dchp)
via an scsi-to-ethernet converter :-) I used it as a terminal.
Cool.
But the current bunch won't (offici
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bruce Johnson
wrote:
> 2) It's new/different, we're short-staffed, and we don't have time to learn
> and support these things on top of all the other things we currently do, and
> make sure it doesn't break what we already can barely keep running with the
> spit,
On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
I have a 4-year-old first-gen Intel iMac that I ONLY got because the
faculty member for whom it was purchased had no need or interest in
using a
Mac, otherwise I'd probably still be using the 800 Mhz upgraded
Sawtooth we
still
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Bruce Johnson
wrote:
>
>
> We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
> *ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
> power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student or
> instrument
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Here there has long been an Apple Store in the Art department. There
are some iMacs mixed with PCs in building labs around campus. the
library has a few scattered macs. Mostly for media work.
Lots of Macs on campus, and our bookst
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Bruce Johnson
wrote:
> We're getting to be more and more mac all the time, in the last three days
> two more professors have told us or inquired about switching.
>
> More and more of our students have nice MacBooks and MacBook pros and
> iPhones have become damn n
On 4/22/10 10:30 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun!
Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-)
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace
at work. Now the m
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin wrote:
> A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
> that employees
> hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
> how companies want
> their employees to work for them. :)
Even cows get some music when they are being milked :-)
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On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
their employees to work for them. :)
Even cows get some mus
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin wrote:
>>
>>> A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
>>> that employees
>>> hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
>>> h
On 4/23/10 12:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
their employees to
On 22/04/10 12:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Folks dragging new toys are shocked when they come to us and say "help
us get X going."
And we look at them, take the device from their hands, and say "Okay,
I've now held on of these things in my hands for a total of five seconds
in my life. How do you
On 22/04/10 1:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
*ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student
or instrument in their lab.
Don't you
On 23/04/10 1:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We would occasionally have interesting Radio Wars in that lab.
The best working policy that I've seen is to not have music at all. Or,
ring it directly into your ear, from your iPod, walkman or discman.
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At 9:15 AM -0700 4/22/2010, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun!
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on
myspace at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based).
Is it possible that they have put a block
On 4/23/10 12:05 PM, "Bruce Johnson" wrote:
> Be careful what you wish for, you might get someone who decides that
> Bangladeshi folk music is Just The Thing.
>
> (Happened one time in a lab I worked in, one PhD was from there and
> was playing some traditional Bangladeshi music. To the untraine
On 4/23/10 6:30 PM, Dan wrote:
At 9:15 AM -0700 4/22/2010, John Niven wrote:
I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun!
I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on
myspace at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based). Is
it possible
On Apr 23, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
Don't you guys have a policy that prevents people from stripping
machines. I've seen a laptop where the prof/Phd student., perhaps in
wanting a newer machine, disconnected the video cable going from the
mainboard to the display and turned the
Nestamicky wrote:
On 22/04/10 1:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's
*ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or
power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student
or instrument in t
On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Charles Lenington wrote:
> It really sucks when you buy a pallet of computers at a auction and the HDs,
> trays/brackets and ram are gone.
I don't know about other places, but our surplus forms are always accurately
marked as to condition., and they almost alway
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