DISQUS

Play Things: Does your office IT villains not let you install anything?

  • Tamanna · 1 year ago
    OMG! Where the hell were you 3 months back when I was interning and the office PC wouldn't even let me have Yahoo Messenger!?!?!? 3 months of disconnect from friend in YM has cost me so much! :|
  • Tamanna · 1 year ago
    friends*
  • Hvg86 · 1 year ago
    Amazingly well thought of..gonna keep that in mind whenever d need will arise..
    On that same track..would love to read about thoughts on firefox 3 n the mods u recommend 4 it..
  • Rahul · 1 year ago
    Enlightening!
  • Rohan · 1 year ago
    You mean your sysadmins are smart enough to not allow you to install programs, but stupid enough to leave USB drives enabled?
  • Sidin Vadukut · 1 year ago
    @Tamanna: Better late than never no?

    @Hvg86: Expect a Firefox 3 review with mods info over the weekend!

    @Rahul: Muchas gracias!

    @Rohan: Well you don't need USB drives either. If you can browse the net, download files and unzip them... you are good to go!
  • tpsl · 1 year ago
    wat abt if ur web is protected by firewalls and do not allow the access to mails ,messengers
  • Arun · 1 year ago
    and now, gentlemen - the villains have found the solution.
    soon, all pendrives will be disabled in the office PC's.
  • gaurav · 1 year ago
    does the IT department keep the option of downloading open for you???
  • Monica · 1 year ago
    Wow!Thats a brilliant idea...no more buttering up the 'IT' villians.I'm glad i read up ur blog while casual surfing
  • Sankar · 1 year ago
    What do we do when USB ports are disabled?
  • Tamanna · 1 year ago
    @Sankar
    Like Sidin said, you don't even need a pendrive if you have internet. You can just download the files and unzip them.
  • Rohit · 1 year ago
    And what happens if the Laptop you've been given by yr employer has USB ports disabled ? And yr access to the internet is limited, so that you can't go to PA websites to download them.
    (There are companies like these out there guys ... infact its pretty commonplace in some Big companies to disable USB ports and limit internet access !!)
  • Sidin · 1 year ago
    @Rohit, Shankar and everyone else who wants to know what to do when your USB ports are disabled:

    Well as long as you have a CD drive on your machine and the ability to unzip you still stand a chance of installing these portable apps.

    If you have no USB ports and no internet connection then take a bank CD and head to your nearest netcafe. Download all the portable apps you need. Burn them onto your disc. And then load it into your machine.

    If you don't have a working CD drive either... then contact the National Human Right Commission and tell them of your working conditions.
  • Kaushik · 1 year ago
    You must start displaying the number of hits to the article... i guess a number of people who read your article are in office and dont want to spend the extra 3min to type a comment. A 'read count' would show the popularity of the coloumn.
  • Marc · 1 year ago
    I suggest bringing your own hard disk, connecting it and using a restriction free machine.