Perşembe, Eylül 20, 2007

constraints and creativity

like the book "Getting Real" says constraints in the environment which you cannot bend or break, lead to creativity. Let me just mention one constraint I have here at work: Some stupid norton product prevents me from downloading files with the extension of .exe. Some sort of protection mechanism against users which could download malicious software from the net and harm the internal network, i guess. This also prevents guys like me from installing open source software,like firefox, to their boxes. So I had to come up with a solution, and I had to do it fast: zipGET.
Just plugin the URL that has the EXE file, zipGET downloads that file to the verisux servers, and provides you with a link to the file which has been zipped ;) Simple, yet effective.

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Enver ALTIN dedi ki...

Your IT staff knows nothing about Windows NT User Policies and group grants, that means you can possibly screw them in many other ways anyway.

deniz dizman dedi ki...

Our IT staff does know a thing or two about these regulations, but the thing is that all developers have local admin rights, to configure stuff like IIS.