Reply to: How tight is your clientco's web permissioning?

[VectraMan]

My best one was the Tektronix site being blocked.

I did a contract at Tekronix. Email me 3 years ago, and I'll get you access to what you want.

[cojak]

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...

[NickFitz]

Did productivity go up or down

Up initially, given that at least one developer had been stalled on getting the server development environment set up for two days because it wouldn't let him download Maven ("Criminal Skills and Hacking").

Luckily, nobody tracked the long-term consequences

[d000hg]

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

Did productivity go up or down

[NickFitz]

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

[darmstadt]

I 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.

Snap, which is how I'm posting now. Clientco 1 has given me access, clientco 2 did the paperwork but I can't work out how to do it so use my laptop.

[threaded]

Thought you were retired Threaded.

I am, semi. Which is why I don't give a flying one any more.

[d000hg]

Thought you were retired Threaded.

[swamp]

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.

That's just mean.

[conned tractor]

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.

[threaded]

what? Keystrokes per minute counted?

Yeah, time tracking by application so they can see how long you're in word, ie, eclipse, etc.. Logs websites and pages.

I just have a little script that listens in to what others in the local net are doing, filters, randomise and replay. Simples.

[bobhope]

what? Keystrokes per minute counted?

[threaded]

On 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

They would have to be good to find out.

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.

[threaded]

Which supplier is that?

Huawei E398

I get a true 100M downstream :-)

Which is nice.

[oversteer]

I 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.

On 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