Thread: Internet Tablets in the Workplace
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bleek is offline bleek
2007-12-07 , 21:20
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Originally Posted by Hedgecore View Post
Antilles: I'm not saying Windows is more secure than Linux at all, my belief is the complete opposite. Unfortunately the workplace isn't necessarily a place where one is put their opinions into practice.
Hmm... I guess thats why you are an admin and not a developer. Tell the sheep to operate as is. Exceptions to the rules are bad. etc. As someone who attempts to create new things and innovate, I try to express my opinion as much as possible in the workplace, but that just me.

Originally Posted by Hedgecore View Post
djs: We had a developer with his own laptop PC. I'm not site support, so it's not my business... but I agreed with IT, it pissed them off to no end. He left, and I'm sure he still has all the licensed software on it (screwing the company). There was no way to know how secure it was... and moreover, they wanted admin rights to it because if he was gonna use it as a company resource, they should be able to manage it as one when it was here. No go. Lots of issues arose from it besides being out a bunch of licenses. (He was a developer, stuff got expensive. He was also friends with a VP which is why he was allowed to bring it in anyway.)
The fact that you just HAD to include that last piece of information(friends with a VP) validates my point above. It seems like you are forming this opinion more because you don't like your toes being stepped on by a hotshot developer( regardless if this person was actually worthy of the description) rather than legitimate concerns over the issue. I for one will not take a job for a company (or upper management) that does not have enough faith in my skills to setup and manage my own development machine to maximize my productivity for the company.