Chain reaction advert

Harry B

That sodding Chain Reaction advert is really p*ssing me off. It's always there on the left and when you open someone's posting it partially covers some of the text.

How can I get rid of the sodding thing?

:evil: :evil: :evil:

redddraggon

Harry B wrote:

That sodding Chain Reaction advert is really p*ssing me off. It's always there on the left and when you open someone's posting it partially covers some of the text.

How can I get rid of the sodding thing?

:evil: :evil: :evil:

Use Firefox and install adblock plus

Harry B

redddraggon wrote:

Harry B wrote:

That sodding Chain Reaction advert is really p*ssing me off. It's always there on the left and when you open someone's posting it partially covers some of the text.

How can I get rid of the sodding thing?

:evil: :evil: :evil:

Use Firefox and install adblock plus

I'm at work and the firm's system seems to be letting it through

nicklouse

i run Firefox portable on a flash stick plugged into the work PC.

FSR_XC

Poor site management?

Or good advert - as it makes us talk about it?

Harry B

FSR_XC wrote:

Poor site management?

Or good advert - as it makes us talk about it?

But it might persuade me not to buy from them in the future

redddraggon

I can't even see it

Harry B

redddraggon wrote:

I can't even see it

:evil:

redvee

There's an ad to the right of the page?? Never seen it

fto-si

Never seen it either and I dont use FireFox

FAT_ROB

I can't see it either and im not running anything..... though now I want to

NorwegianBlue

nicklouse wrote:

i run Firefox portable on a flash stick plugged into the work PC.

What? Your IT department let that happen? What a bunch of amateurs.

redddraggon

NorwegianBlue wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

i run Firefox portable on a flash stick plugged into the work PC.

What? Your IT department let that happen? What a bunch of amateurs.

I've got all manners of programs installed on my work computers, Firefox, iTunes, divx Players, Xfire, MSN messenger, they don't seem to bat an eyelid.

NorwegianBlue

Deary me. Who do you work for. Can I offer to contract their IT services for them and do it properly.

redddraggon

NorwegianBlue wrote:

Deary me. Who do you work for. Can I offer to contract their IT services for them and do it properly.

It's the STFC. I need to be able to freely install programs i.e I need to be an administrator on my computers. Aswell as all my entertainment providing programs I'm installing all different types of scientific data analysis and collection programs - it'd be a right PITA if I had to go crawling to IT services to install all my programs.

I also sit in my office and labs with music playing, and there's no dress regulations, it's a rather relaxed place to work, we're even on flexitime. It's not a draconian establishment like a lot of private companies seem to be.

NorwegianBlue

redddraggon wrote:

NorwegianBlue wrote:

Deary me. Who do you work for. Can I offer to contract their IT services for them and do it properly.

It's the STFC. I need to be able to freely install programs i.e I need to be an administrator on my computers. Aswell as all my entertainment providing programs I'm installing all different types of scientific data analysis and collection programs - it'd be a right PITA if I had to go crawling to IT services to install all my programs.

I also sit in my office and labs with music playing, and there's no dress regulations, it's a rather relaxed place to work, we're even on flexitime. It's not a draconian establishment like a lot of private companies seem to be.

I work in the public sector, I wear jeans and T-shirts for work, I work flexi-time, I sometimes work from home, other offices or wherever else I can get a connection. All in all a very relaxed working environment. But we wouldn't go round giving people administrative rights on their PC's.

I never buy the argument that "I need to install my own software because of the nature of my work". If software needs installing on your PC I can do it without getting off my butt with a clickety click or two. The only thing that is needed to install software is a reasonable written business case, which in most cases would be shorter than this posting and of course proof that you had a license to install and use the software.

I'd be interested to see your organisation's business continuity plan if everybody is allowed to install their own software and presumably manages their own installation media, licensing and local backups.

redddraggon

I don't see the problem with having administrative rights on my computers, I have them on my computers at home, if I can manage everything else myself at work so why not the computers? The IT staff agreed to let me admin on my computers, so I'm happy. I'm not saying I need to install my own software myself, but I often work well into the night when there's no IT staff around.

And anyway if they didn't let me have admin on my own computers, I'd bring in my own laptop and use it on the wireless or wired network they provide for non campus computers. I've often been on someone else's computer late at night doing scientific work, and I've come to work out the pressure of one of my cells using an internet pressure calculator, but I can't use it because the computer hasn't got java installed and it won't let me install it.

giant_man

Harry B wrote:

That sodding Chain Reaction advert is really p*ssing me off. It's always there on the left and when you open someone's posting it partially covers some of the text.

How can I get rid of the sodding thing?

:evil: :evil: :evil:

Nowhere near as bad as that bloody Marines ad that used to run on the BR home page, God that was irritating.

NorwegianBlue

redddraggon wrote:

I don't see the problem with having administrative rights on my computers, I have them on my computers at home, if I can manage everything else myself at work so why not the computers? The IT staff agreed to let me admin on my computers, so I'm happy. I'm not saying I need to install my own software myself, but I often work well into the night when there's no IT staff around.

And anyway if they didn't let me have admin on my own computers, I'd bring in my own laptop and use it on the wireless or wired network they provide for non campus computers. I've often been on someone else's computer late at night doing scientific work, and I've come to work out the pressure of one of my cells using an internet pressure calculator, but I can't use it because the computer hasn't got java installed and it won't let me install it.

But why would Java not be installed in the first place? Surely that's part of your standard build.

The biggest problem from an IT point of view in giving people admin rights on a computer is that of malware spreading. Every time somebody manages to get admin rights on their computer here (usually after pressure from a senior manager) we find all sorts of nasty stuff on there after a couple of weeks. Another problem is the massive support overhead. Before we took everybody's admin rights away we got loads of problems with support calls for things going failing to work when it turned out that either the user had installed some conflicting software, changed some settings or, my personal favourite, uninstalling something in the name of housekeeping.

But the biggest problem from a business point of view is that of unlicensed software. There was quite a large organisation stuck with massive bills for using unlicesnced software last year, the management's rather feeble plea in mitigation was that they had no control over what their end users installed on their computers!

Oh, and I just love the idea of an EU bringing in their own laptop. Don't you have any network security?

redddraggon

NorwegianBlue wrote:

Oh, and I just love the idea of an EU bringing in their own laptop. Don't you have any network security?

There's three networks - a restricted network where you need to have the computer in the correct domain and have a network password and username, then there's a wired and wireless which are unrestricted, these are there because it's a campus where there's loads of visiting scientists and academics.

The IT staff didn't bat an eyelid when I asked for admin on all of my computers, I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers though but the person I inherited it from had all sorts of dodgy software installed hogging the resources which took me a while to sort out.

I agree that letting everyone have admin would be a bad idea, I know I wouldn't give it to my boss (his computer use is more than a bit haphazard), but some of us know as much as the admin staff

NorwegianBlue

It sounds to me like either your IT department isn't very good, or if they have quality staff they don't have enough funding.

The point of an IT function is to provide service to the end users. The only way to do this effectively is if they have total control over the infrastructure, that way they can spend their time providing a service to users rather than the traditional model where they spend all their time fire fighting.

The IT infrastructure is as much a part of the facilities as the buildings themselves and you wouldn't want somebody doing their own building work, plumbing or electrical rewire in the office.