Celeste, With Windows 2000, it is very possible to lock down a machine. Now, it is also hackable, but that would be against policy and therefore a "punishable by dismissal" offence.
It is a huge drag on productivity and this has been pointed out and rejected. So, let them manage the developers however they wish. My personal laptop and I will continue to be productive. If I wasn't working here for geographical/religious reasons, then I'd be freshening up my resume and going to work with Mark. (well, maybe not ;-) Simon >-----Original Message----- >From: Haseltine, Celeste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:13 AM >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' >Subject: RE: [OT] Standardised Environments (was RE: [OT] Eclipse IDE) > > >Simon, > >How in the world can you lock down a developers machine? Not >only is that >non-productive in my opinion, but I suspect that half the >staff would be >spending some of their time trying to figure out the admin >password on their >machine, just to "remove" the "lock" (for Windows only >operating systems, of >course). You must have a separate IT support department that >is on a power >trip trying to control the IT development groups machines. > >Like you, I would be bringing in my own laptop, and doing my work in it >while looking for another job. > >Celeste > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:31 AM >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: [OT] Standardised Environments (was RE: [OT] Eclipse IDE) > > >Our management (I won't say leadership, for reasons that will >be obvious to >experienced IS developers) also have the belief that standardisation is >good. We are having our J2EE workstations defined to the n'th >degree and >they will all be locked down so that you can't change >anything. You can't >even change your windows wallpaper!!! Our IDE is defined, >you'd better like >it because you can't install anything else. All in the sacred name of >productivity. > >Anyone else out there going through this or have advice to share? > >I am planning to bring my personal laptop to work to do any of >my tinkering >on. I like to think that my tinkering is helpful to the >company, but you >wouldn't think so from these new policies. This past year, I >have introduced >to the company's IS environment four new tools that I >evaluated by tinkering >with in those downtimes between projects. Specifically, these tools are >Struts (hey, you know I like Struts! :-), ant, junit and >Cygwin. The funny >thing, to me, is that these tools evaluated by tinkering are >going to be >part of the new locked down standard! Gotta laugh. > >Simon > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Daniel H. F. e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:39 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [OT] Eclipse IDE - The Two Towers >> >> >>Hi all, >> I do appreciate all feedback posted here in this list. >> Well, i am only executing orders. I don't intend to obligate >>everybody to adopt my >>recomendations. >>My boss wants a standard environment to all developers. So, >>order is order. >> I think his concern about this task is to improve >>productivity. So, what is more productive? >> Following our discussion, does someone have experience >>writing Eclipse plugins? How difficult is >>this kind of task? >> >>Best regards, >> Daniel. >> >> >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >>http://mailplus.yahoo.com >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >><mailto:struts-user->[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For >>additional commands, >>e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
