Anti-stance wrote: Our IT guy at work is kind of a friend of mine. He does absolutely nothing, takes 2 hour lunches, and "works" from home(usually after a long night of drinking).
Wow, you just described MY friend in the IT department. The upside of having the worlds laziest man as your buddy in IT is that: it's easy to convince them to grant you admin access to your own machine.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: If this is a alptop... buy your own hard drive from newegg and replace the one in your PC, mount the old disk as a secondary - create a virtual machine on the first disk using the image on the second. Run whatever you want - but leave the VM full screen when you are in the office :) *posted from my work laptop running Mint Linux
Hey now...I am the IT guy and that is what I do. No fair giving out top secret IT procedures. I did it to keep from upgrading and possibly breaking my development environment.
And IT is much like being a doctor (well House anyway). All users lie.
"I didn't change anything".
"It just did that on it's own."
"No, I didn't open any strange emails."
"I rebooted it but it still doesn't work."
"No, I didn't give anybody my password."
"Yes, I shutdown or lock my computer every night."
"My computer is sooo slow."...after I remove Comet Cursors, Kazaa, damned smileys, webpics screensaver, sooper coupons and any number of other malware/bloatware/adware crap..."How did that get there?"
One user was bringing her daughter in on Saturdays. She let her daughter web surf on her PC while she used someone else's PC. Guess who got to clean viruses off her PC every 2 weeks? She never got in trouble though because she was working on Saturdays. Meanwhile I was averaging 1 day a week devoted to cleaning her PC.
And why does everyone claim they have computer experience but go glassy-eyed when I ask them to right-click on something?
I was once asked to write a procedure (with screenshots) for rebooting an XP machine.
We IT guys are like we are because users are like they are. My new boss, during his 1st month, called me into his office and had a talk with me about my attitude. I had been at the company for 5 years. He came from a consulting background. One year later, I was in his office and he went off on a rant about the users. I calmly reminded him of the "talk" about my attitude.
Have no fear . . . even IT departments lock down computers for other tech users that have more experience that 90% of the people making the decisions to lock it down.
It's awesome when you are on a consultation with MS or Oracle and can't install software to perform said consultation because security believes ALL machines should be locked down within an inch of it's useful existence . . . 
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