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Previously on "How tight is your clientco's web permissioning?"
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I've web and google access but they blocked 'social networking' which includes some useful work-related blogs that I refer to occasionally.
I haven't bothered with CUK and my webmail - I use my iPhone for that...
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostDid productivity go up or down
Luckily, nobody tracked the long-term consequences
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ClientOrg last year installed some web filtering thingy. It thought ppk's QuirksMode was a dating site (it's about browser compatibility), blocked all images and CSS files (but not the content) on Sam Ruby's Intertwingly as being related to "Criminal Activity and Hacking", asserted that JavaScript guru Dean Edwards' blog was "Webmail", and decided that the online manual for Apache Ant (a build tool) was "Social Networking"
There were plenty of other stupid things in the database, usually blocking stuff that was relevant to developers. All requests for unblocking had to be sent to the director of the department, who then had to decide whether to forward them to IT.
After a couple of days of being emailed a different URL to check every twenty minutes or so, the director demanded a blanket exemption from filtering for all developers, which we got
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Originally posted by threaded View PostI have a little dongle thing that gets me broadband over mobile.
Just plug it in a USB port Windows, Apple or Linux and it mostly self installs.
Surfs faster than most clients networks.
Which is nice.
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No web access for contractors here. Permies get it though. Great when you need to find the answer to something, which would normally be a 30 second Google away. Welcome to 1992.
Posted from trap 3. You'd better believe it.
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Originally posted by bobhope View Postwhat? Keystrokes per minute counted?
I just have a little script that listens in to what others in the local net are doing, filters, randomise and replay. Simples.
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Originally posted by oversteer View PostOn your own laptop, or the clients' provided machine? If the latter, some network admin will cack themselves when they find out, shortly before you get marched off site
And they're permies. So that they ain't.
They're so anal as to have software to measure how much you're working.
I've subverted that too.
Which is nice.
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Originally posted by threaded View PostI have a little dongle thing that gets me broadband over mobile.
Just plug it in a USB port Windows, Apple or Linux and it mostly self installs.
Surfs faster than most clients networks.
Which is nice.
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