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Hi all, just lost my Dad to diabetes and renal failure, at age 67.  He and I were super close, and he lived with me in the last 3-ish years of his life. When I was very little, we made a "pact" that we would be "old buddies" from the get-go and we would have all kinds of stuff we'd tell each other and not my Mom, and we'd do "buddy running around" every Saturday.
He passed just last week, on Cinco de Mayo, in fact. Anyway, I will miss him very much. Now, back to work! lol As if -- the new company where I just started --- here, they bring me in at a huge hourly rate, and as a software dev consultant, and they then give me a laptop that is so locked down, permissions-wise, all i can do is use MS Office on it. I can't hardly browse the web (except for CP haha) and I can't access any of the network shares I need for my first task. My colleagues say, "Good luck" getting access anytime soon, because their paperwork process is so slow.
Anyway, it's good to go. I've brought in some other ways to occupy myself  But, am missing Dad.
Brian
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I'm sorry to hear about your Dad - mine passed when I was a child, so I can say with some certainty that it does get better with time. And remember: they aren't truly gone while you remember them. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
So sit there, play solitaire and write memos in Word explaining that's all you can do, and think of the money stacking up while you do nothing useful. Then write an article for here, and they pay for it...
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I'm very sorry for your loss.
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
Marc
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I'm sorry to hear about your dad. My dad passed a few years ago. We were close and I miss him.
Brian C Hart wrote: he new company where I just started --- here, they bring me in at a huge hourly rate, and as a software dev consultant, and they then give me a laptop that is so locked down, permissions-wise, all i can do is use MS Office on it. I can't hardly browse the web (except for CP haha) and I can't access any of the network shares I need for my first task. My colleagues say, "Good luck" getting access anytime soon, because their paperwork process is so slow.
This sounds EXACTLY like my situation. Started at a new company as a contractor 2 weeks ago. Money's awesome but the gave me a laptop and, like yours, it's totally locked down. To install anything I have to go to IT and they have to come do it. The app I'm working on has some dependencies on other DLL's/COM objects etc. Toook 3 days of Admins coming to ym desk and installing to get it to work.
They finally opened the USB port. The app has a hardware device that I need to work on the app.
EVERY DAY the laptop "resets" various setting... Browser homepage is the company's page, which is REALLY annoying. Lot's of sites are blocked. Can't use any kind of files sharing apps. I still use the Quick Launch toolbar. I have to re-add it every day. The shortcuts are all there but the toolbar is removed every day. VERY annoying. I don't see the point in some of these restrictions.
Seems WAY too restrictive. I'll get used to it I guess.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: I'll get used to it I guess.
I am in the same situation - I even wonder if we are not working for the same employer.
Anyway, I found some workarounds for some of the restrictions, and I got used to the rest. The IT eventually gave me admin rights on my machine, because they got tired to see me showing up every day for something else, and because I have to access the sacred "program files" directory, and they did not find a solution to grant me access without granting it to everybody else in the same group.
Kevin Marois wrote: Browser homepage is the company's page
Put it on "blank page" in the settings -> The Windows policy is able to force the homepage, but not to switch between "blank" or "use this link".
Kevin Marois wrote: Lot's of sites are blocked. Can't use any kind of files sharing apps
Use the URL in Goggle translate : this allows to bypass the restriction, while giving you access to the sites (well, in a google translate frame, but still...).
Kevin Marois wrote: I still use the Quick Launch toolbar. I have to re-add it every day
Also had something similar that at the beginning, I put a .reg file in the startup folder. Curiously, the registry change was made without requiring admin rights (but with the confirmation popup window...).
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Sorry to hear about your father, sounds like you have lifetime of good memories to reflect back on. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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My condolences! May he R.I.P.!
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Very sorry for your loss, Brian. Sounds like he was an awesome Dad.
/ravi
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Sorry for your loss. That must really bite. I am glad you had an awesome father.
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Sorry for your loss
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Condolences
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Brian, my deepest sympathies on your loss.
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Brian, my profound sympathies for your loss. Your dad sounds like a great guy.
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 Feel for you!
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Sorry to hear about your dad.
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Sorry to hear of you losing your dad.
I lost mine when I was 17, just before we got to start doing interesting projects together - he was a master carpenter and had been slowly teaching me lots of useful stuff - which I hardly ever get to use these days. Be happy that you had the time you had.
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Condolences on your dad 
Good story on the new work laptop 
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Sorry to hear. I lost my pops in 2012. Thanks for sharing.
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Sorry to hear that... truly...
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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