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"Keys don't lock doors, they only lock locks" - me.
I hate it when they give me a new laptop that is locked down.
I do like getting a new laptop. What I don't like is the time I waste figuring out how to get it back to a state that serves my needs; so that I can do what I am paid to do.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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Even better: You physically get up early, go to work, go through leaps and bounds so you can get in to the area where you are going run the test, find that the pre-test failed. So the favours you pulled to get some free time to run the test are now in vain. Why didn't the lot that failed the pretest tell me, 'We didn't have your phone number', no Teams, Email or smoke signals!!!!
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We implemented USB Write blocking. Our people are able to use whatever USB devices they want to use, they just can't write files to them. So, devices like network hubs, printers, scanners, etc. work without problems.
If someone needs something written to a USB drive, they can either file a request to have us do it for them, or they can put in a request to be exempted from the policy. Exemptions go all the way up to SVP level for approval, but having us do it may only require their manager to approve depending on the sensitivity of what they want written out. Of course, anything done under exemption is logged and reviewed regularly.
We have had issues in the past where someone abused his exemption, and was downloading CAD files and source code to a USB drive to sell them. We pegged him in less than a week. Only served to cement in the necessity of such security measures.
We clamp down where we have to, but we do make an effort to not stop people from doing their jobs.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I can understand the whole thing about security ( A company I once worked for one the 'seniors' left for another role elsewhere brought a USB portable hard drive plugged it in and down loaded somefiles, it took nearly an hour, my guess was he was downloading the projects directory, no one said anything!)
but this system you lock everything down. Tried to log in this afternoon remotely, Wi-Fi will turn on but the second you try to scan for a network it turns it off, so I have to be on an approved Network for the Wi-Fi to work?
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glennPattonContracting2 wrote:
Wi-Fi will turn on but the second you try to scan for a network it turns it off, so I have to be on an approved Network for the Wi-Fi to work?
Your issue sounds most likely to be a hardware problem. If not, then it might possibly be some misconfigured power settings. You should take it to your IT department to have it checked out.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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That I have done "Hi, I think there is an issue with my Laptop connecting to Wi-Fi", "That should fix it!" (it doesn't) go back same issue, "You, have an old laptop, I'll see when you are due a new one, August 2022, so I can't swap it out"  "I can't alter any of the power, or network setting or it will void our Network agreement"  "Hmm wait until it fails, save all your current stuff to One Drive, oh you can't access it can you"  Seriously it is going to have an accident.
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You have my deepest sympathies. No IT team I work on would ever handle it like that.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Well, it makes me think, I'm quite low on the ladder (new starter) do they trat everyone the same way?
How can they call themselves an 'IT Help Desk' more like 'IT Prevention', I feel I'm Dilbert Heck, Accounting Trolls are next!! 
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Expect difficulty with this (7,8)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Strange Synonyms?
Evasive Equation?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You have a strange mind nope
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Means: "I think I know it" ... but I'll give the others a chance, since I'm not setting Mondays.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's Friday tomorrow 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yeah, but if nobody gets it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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True
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm trying to create a permanent link to a message. I click the chain icon in the lower right of the message. And then .... nothing. There is nothing in the clipboard to paste! Where is the permalink and how do I get it?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The URL changes. Copy and paste it.
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Aaaaaaaaah! Thanks.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The simplest option is to right-click the icon and select "copy link". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Paraphrased from Microsoft's own docs in order to make it readable
MyMethod(options => _ = provider switch
{
"option 1" => options.Method1(x => x.Prop),
"option 2" => options.Method2(x => x.Prop),
_ => throw new Exception($"Unsupported option: {option}")
});
Are we really helping the Art with this type of syntax? I'm trying to work out what we're saving here. Keystrokes? HDD space? Screen real estate?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Trying to save all the above, show how clever language designers can be, and burn out everyone else's brain cells trying to keep up with, and parse, all this shite.
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Greg Utas wrote: all this shite.
amen
Real programmers use butterflies
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But you understand it! 
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Completely agree...
Many of the new features to the Microsoft .NET compilers, to me, are completely unreadable.
This all started with generics and LINQ years ago, when they introduced the caret as a compiler symbol.
With code,they have made it ambiguous while with LINQ, they turned SQL upside down.
What is the purpose of all this? To show that you can make programming as difficult as rocket science?
I never use any of these features and stick with the "old ways" of writing code. It is much easier with little to ambiguity.
So what if you save a few milli-seconds here or there. Who cares?
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I really like that you mentioned that.
Just yesterday during a live coding session another dev was showing me how to do a thing.
He used a C# anonymous function / lambda expression and was trying to get it right (and this was his code) and he was typing, backspacing, typing, backspacing...waiting for intellisense, typing waiting for intellisense...
I was like, "yeah, functional programming...no one can remember the syntax..." We both laughed.
I mean regular old OOP and structured programming is really easy to remember and type actually.
*youngster waves fist and starts..."Old man...!!!"
I know. 
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