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Headed to Chicago. Got nearly the whole weekend packed with family events. I might just have to push someone into the lake...
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Take a care. The local cops in Chicago are up-in-arms about the brutal murder of one of their own.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'll be at Navy pier tomorrow with the family, I'll be listening for the splash. Have a good time!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
 That's awesome! It took me 14+ years but I finally made it into someone's sig.
Err... actually my uncle made it into a sig. 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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A great line  , I used it at my doctors office recently, for some reason he didn't think nearly as funny as me, I didn't realize he was such a humorless lump.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'll be staying far away from the zoo that is Chicago on labor Day weekend, staying home (70 miles south of Chicago) and entertaining my in-laws.
Wait! What?!
Maybe I should go north...
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Take a gun. That's not a nice place to be a victim.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Have a happy/safe trip 
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How many of you software engineers out there are not allowed to have local admin rights on your Windows development system?
Our IT guy here has it so nobody has local admin rights. If we need admin rights, we have a separate user account that does not have access to the internet or the company network.
This is annoying beyond belief. Anytime I want to peek at the device manager I get that annoying windows dialog that says I can't make changes but I can look. [ Can I get that to go away? ]
And of course if I want to make changes, I have to log in with admin account via the UAC window. Imagine how convenient that is when debugging a driver or a driver-related problem?
That is not the only problem... If I am working on an installer on another day.. I have to go through that each time I run/test/debug the installer.
This has been the policy around here for a few years. I have managed to avoid it because my last PC was installed/set up before the policy. Now that PC is about dead and they gave me a new one today and now it feels like they are making me work with my hands tied together. To them, I think they can't understand why the big deal. To me.. it is a flow disrupter. I feel like I am just going to have to stop trying so hard to be fast. But it is more than speed. It is concentration. I can see them rolling their eyes.. but this is real!
The reason cited for this is that all kinds of nasties can come in through email or websites. We've got web blockers for the web and spam blockers for the email and on-access virus scanning...
So I ask you: How does it go where you work? Do you have admin rights on your PC?
I can't believe that this is the only way to solve the "security threat". What policies/etc are in place where you work?
-Suzanne
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The last time I came across this I told my manager at the time that development estimates were off by at least 25-50%. When she asked why, I told her - having to ask systems every time we needed to do anything that required those rights could take from an hour to a day or more. We all got local admin rights the next morning. Yes, I exaggerated a little to make the point but so what, nothing worse than being hamstrung.
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No admin rights here. If I want to install something on my desktop that uses an actual installer, I have to put a request in to IT.
Makes a lot of sense for the end users... Less so for us developers, but c'est la vie. You get used to it after a while...
And if I was on a project that constantly required admin rights, they'd probably find some way to accommodate that.
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We all have local admin rights on our work computers.
We also have anti-virus and email spam/virus check which are installed company wide (domain admin-rights)
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm actually using my work laptop as personal laptop as well.
Full rights, full access 
I'm glad my company has that kind of trust in its developers
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm actually using my work laptop as personal laptop
Danger, Will Robinson! *flails arms*
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Admin rights on my desktop and dev servers. A very locked down (via external policy from the data owners) account on the airgapped secure network. Fortunately that network also comes with an admin who views his job as making sure we can do ours while obeying security policy.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have full admin on my box, and I actually don't want it.
I want to have a limited user account because then I can truly replicate a user's bug report, which many times can't be repro'd because I have higher sysauth than they do. At home, I run a limited user account, and have a local admin for installations. That's what I'd prefer at my company, but they don't allow that.  The only options are : "limited user + no local admin", or "practically domain admin levels of godliness".
If I have a repeated action I need to do that always needs elevation, I find that the vast majority of the time I can accomplish it via command prompt. So I elevate the CMD instance once, leave it open and just kick off the repeat stuff I need to deal with that way.
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None of our end users have local admin rights.
All developers have local admin rights.
I even have access to all the servers, although the sys admin will not allow me to make any changes to AD which I respect.
We have a decent firewall and good AV software. I am expected/trusted to be very careful and if I need to use a server I am under strict instructions to never user an internet browser on the server without first checking with the sys admin.
I think denying developers admin rights shows a lack of knowledge on the part of the sys admin. Developers need to understand security issues, for goodness sake.
If the developers don't understand computer security, at least at the level of how to avoid malware and viruses, the company is in deep poop and needs to hire new developers pretty damn quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 3-Sep-15 16:14pm.
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I am the admin.
But everyone else is having local admin rights.
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First week on the job with this same policy. Can't log in as admin, but can elevate privileges through annoying prompts. I'd say, I've come to love portable "installers" xcopy the files you need and it just works.
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stgagnon wrote: Do you have admin rights on your PC?
Yes.
If the restriction is truly keeping you from producing work for the company, can't you get your supervisor involved.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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no, our supervisor is in the same situation. Doesn't work like that.
And the mandate comes from a very high gov office. There's nothing you can do and no one you can complain to.
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I have local admin rights.
I used to work for a company that did not give ANY of the engineers/developers, admin rights - that sucked.
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I'm very lucky. At work I have all the necessary clearances to be granted a smart-card that gives me admin authorization to install software and such, if needed.
But 65,000 of my coworkers have no such luxury. If they want to update something or do anything that requires admin access, they have to open a service ticket and wait. A tech may come the same day to help them, if they are lucky.
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While I have admin rights my manager has to fight for them every year. the same fight, the same argument and the same result... I get my rights approved. A monumental f***ing waste of time and effort and they have been doing this for over 10 years.
The argument BTW is that we need to support a critical windows service, the fact that the service has not been used in 6 years has not been disclosed to them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Where I am now (and also at my previous job) you could request local admin rights and "I'm a developer" was enough justification. But now they are trying to take it away and have us request it only when we need it. The request, of course, also requires our boss' approval so that would delay the process significantly.
Certainly most developers here don't need local rights all the time, maybe only when installing third party software and such. Most stuff we write doesn't get installed locally.
But, we few developers (i.e. only me) who actually develop tools and utilities for ourselves do need to install locally whenever we make a change and having to wait even a few hours can be a significant delay.
So, when they asked me for justification of why I need local rights I sent screenshots of me trying to use gacutil without rights.
And it worked.
This week I got an email saying I'd soon have a separate local account that I can use. 
I don't know how that will work out, but I envision having a shortcut that will launch a dos box running under that user.
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