Quake3World

Working on peoples personal computers or work computers you really need to be ready for everything.

Story #1

We are removing junk from one users computer, after it was setup we had a meeting durring that time the screensaver kicked in and it was displaying images of nude and half nude women that could be seen through the windows of our department. Needless to say some people were upset.

Story #2

While running windows update on another users computer the Screensaver kicked in and was scrolling through all these photos of this guy with his kids and family. Then it started scrolling through photos of him naked wearing leather and holding his cock :icon28:

Giraffe }{unter wrote: ..Then it started scrolling through photos of him naked wearing leather and holding his cock :icon28:

:lol: a REAL Gimp...

:lol:

I've been a tech so long now, that I don't even care about that shit anymore. Doesn't phase me a bit. In fact... it's kinda funny to have conversations with clients (execs and alike) after hours on how to safely download porno and view/store it undetected.

*shakes head*

Porn isn't really a problem, it's usually the sick shit, like a few years ago we had a guy with 7 gig of foot photos requesting a new hard drive...

I also really don't want to look at the cock of someone I see on a daily basis...

At least it was his cock he was holding.

Giraffe }{unter wrote:I also really don't want to look at the cock of someone I see on a daily basis...

:icon19:

I used to work at a PC repair store, half the PCs we got in were only cunted because of the amount of porn the users had downloaded. Another great one was when this guy (who had a hell of a lot of porn on his PC) bought a DVD re-writer from us and wanted us to fit it and show him how to burn stuff to it. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he wanted to burn all his porno to DVD, and when we were showing him how, as an example he had some naked bitches mudwrestling.
Loads of hilarity was had at that place, hehe.

raw wrote:Easy solution, force the screensave to "Default/Blank" via Group Policy. Screen savers are a waste of valuable PC resources and have been known to cause issues. It was one of the first things I learned in school. Screen Savers are a total waste.

bingo.

We don't even allow our users to set their own wallpaper. The only tab available under the 'Display' control is "Settings."

The general population doesn't know how to use a pc responsibly, so I see no reason to increase my workload just because they want things to look pretty.

dammit, raw DID learn something in school

riddla wrote:

raw wrote:Easy solution, force the screensave to "Default/Blank" via Group Policy. Screen savers are a waste of valuable PC resources and have been known to cause issues. It was one of the first things I learned in school. Screen Savers are a total waste.

my users get all pissed and call me nazi for only allowing logon.scr

zieg!

Heh. Thats the one I enforce through group policy on my networks as well.

lol, in my last job the IT guys gave us all admin privileges on our own PCs. god knows why. a recipe for disaster if ever there was one. i installed all kinds of shit on mine

like weather bug and bonzi buddy?

raw wrote:Easy solution, force the screensave to "Default/Blank" via Group Policy. Screen savers are a waste of valuable PC resources and have been known to cause issues. It was one of the first things I learned in school. Screen Savers are a total waste.

works great for production, but sales guys and engineers get full priveledges to do as they please, remember it's an odd company I work for.

In time we are taking things away from users a little at a time. I'm already at peace with being called hitler, and my boss backs me when management tries to go over my head. We are taking it slow and steady. At this pace the managers are asking us to start making some of the changes we planned to roll out. They are starting to realize all the good that came from changes we have made, and now offer less resistance when we say "it's for the good of the company"

It would be cake if it was started the right way and users had no right what so ever to do anything to their computers, but now we are working backwards and it's an uphill battle most of the way.

Giraffe }{unter wrote: Story #2

While running windows update on another users computer the Screensaver kicked in and was scrolling through all these photos of this guy with his kids and family. Then it started scrolling through photos of him naked wearing leather and holding his cock :icon28:

Did he by chance have a padlock on his nuts?

you're really fascinated by that, pooinyourmouthneedmergenowyeah

Giraffe }{unter wrote:

raw wrote:Easy solution, force the screensave to "Default/Blank" via Group Policy. Screen savers are a waste of valuable PC resources and have been known to cause issues. It was one of the first things I learned in school. Screen Savers are a total waste.

works great for production, but sales guys and engineers get full priveledges to do as they please, remember it's an odd company I work for.

Have you considered logging all trouble tickets and correlating their solutions with examples of how those problems couldn't have happened with proper access rights? Hell, add some rough downtime information in and how long it took your techs to fix so they can see the cost of that downtime in wages. Assigning a dollar value to downtime always seems to bring people onside faster. You should try it for a couple months then present it; it might be just the type of proof management needs to start listening.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:you're really fascinated by that, pooinyourmouthneedmergenowyeah

Not fascinated... just amused by it, JuggerNautverygoodwithnames.

hey, there are no spelling errors.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:hey, there are no spelling errors.

Grading papers?