Hehe. At a recent client site I had just such an issue. I spent a weekend converting my Blogger blog to use FunnelWeblog (awesome blogging engine). The following week at work I came across a problem that I knew I had solved before and went to find the post I had written about it only to find that my shiny new blog was blocked. It was a new domain name and a new engine but it was deemed "Inappropriate" by the corp firewall. Luckily I had a copy of the blog running on my laptop from when I did the conversion and was able to solve the issue.
Also, earlier this week I discovered that I had the rights to create Windows Scheduled Tasks on one of our servers. But I don't have the rights to edit or delete them. Sigh. Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge http://codermike.com On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Arjang Assadi <[email protected]>wrote: > Aaah no, nothing recent in the current place, but in the other places > in the past: > > few of the items on the > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/the-programmers-bill-of-rights.html > plus when looking for code snippets, finding that the site is blocked > due to the firewall considering it a "blog" ( god forbid if something > is blog then must only be for fun not for work ). > Not having the ability to install what ever tool was necessary and > useful for development. > > All resulting in developing in secret after hours just to get things > done, problems researched on a fast net connection without a 10 sec > delay every time trying to view a page that might have a useful info > or not. > > But some people had it worse, not being able to get on the programmer > forums (including Stack Overflow!). > > So in retro respect I have had it really good. > > Almost forgot : not being able to download project/code samples at > places since the Firewall Overlord deemed them not to be suitable. > > I bet other programmers would have their own stories of policy gone > wild at the expense of common sense. > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > On 18 November 2011 16:07, Wallace Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > like that is it ? what didnt they let you do now? > > > > On 18/11/2011 12:58 PM, Arjang Assadi wrote: > >> > >> Unstoppable force meets an immovable object, Programmer meets Sys Admin. > >> > >> Your turn > >> > > > > >
