> -----Original Message----- > From: Tanstaafl [mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:20 PM > To: users@openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [users] OOo 3.2 install issue > > On 2010-02-11 10:51 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > > Then, I too had the installer crap out because I don't have enough > > privileges on my system. > > This would be a new requirement I think - but doesn't MSO > require Admin > privileges too? > > Also, in a corporate environment, you're generally not > *supposed* to be > installing s/w that isn't approved/installed by the I.T. dept. > > I know *I* don't allow it... it is in fact a fireable offense > in some cases.
Yeah, right. Tell that to all the engineers, techwriters, testers, etc. That's like an invitation to selective "malicious compliance". I'd smile and say "sure thing". Then I'd use my non-standard Help-Authoring software (that nobody else in the company has, or needs to have, and I'd publish my stuff, right at the end of the product release cycle, as is always the case, and I'd say "done, and tested on IE 8". Then, in order to cover off the rest of the requirements for the product documentation, I'd send you (as IT person) an e-mail, CC:ing my various bosses and other interested parties: "Dear IT Guy, Please test these docs/this Help system in all the other major browsers that I'm not allowed to install. I received the last of my reviewers' comments this morning and published my "final" revision a few hours later, so you can have until tomorrow morning... early... And by the way, be sure to also test on AIX 5.3 (32 and 64), Solaris (various), HP-UX, RHEL (various versions), SLES (various versions), and Debian, as well as all the other supported Windows variants that are not the single corporate-approved version I'm allowed to have on my desktop. SQA group needs your completed report by 08:30 tomorrow. I'm going home now. Oh, and there's 10 million dollars riding on an on-time release of this product. Cheers!" Anyway, restrictive IT policies are not always bad. I currently nod toward company IT policy to avoid being tapped for work from home. It's good for mental health to leave work _at_ work. I maintain only Mac and Linux boxes at my house, so I'm not elligible to connect to our corporate network (no security profiles have been approved for any non-standard platforms). I feel so sad to not participate in late-evening and early-early-morning (before the birds get up) sessions with people in the other corporate offices on the other side of the world... so sad.... :-) But seriously, what do you do in your strict IT environment, when 93% of your people use MS Office, but you have a couple of marketing types who need (or say they need) Adobe Creative Suite, and you've got a technical writer who insists on using FrameMaker, MadCap Flare, Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, and some jumped-up screen-capture and processing utility that you've never heard of? Do you tell the respective managers to fire the two marketing kids and the techwriter because they're demanding to install non-standard applications AND they won't give you six months to try it out and validate it in your IT lab before you roll it out to them? - Kevin 'some of my best friends work in IT' The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
