This will quickly get off-topic, but.... On Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... > >2) Some folks have no control of what applications/versions are > on their desktops. >... > >That is a poor excuse. >If you need it to do your job, you should have the capability installed. Preaching to the choir. But it is a fact of life at every shop I've consulted at. Can't say "for every shop I've worked for" since I spent my prior 10 years consulting. 13 years ago I worked from a "dumb terminal". > >Standard desktops make administrative (read $) sense, >but most IT-types need non-standard stuff. True. But at least here there are different "standard images". A unix techie gets a different desktop than I do, but it is still standard for that group and has other standard apps that are for all. As far as some non-standard stuff, that is why some of us still have admin rights to our own machines (which we had to fight for). > >I just went through this at my new shop. >Articulate your needs, rather than b*tch! > Needs vs. wants. Adobe 5 works fine. I've never run across a PDF I can't open with it (although some give you a warning about not supporting newer features used). At any rate, in many (most?) cases, it doesn't matter. When I was a full time consultant, there was certainly no point in trying to fight the red tape on these types of things. It just makes you look bad to your client. I ran into road blocks all the time that affected my productivity. That was when I started developing my own tools or using freeware tools. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
