[Gllug] "We Linux users have been doing all that for 10 years."

Christian Smith csmith at micromuse.com
Fri Sep 28 14:24:29 UTC 2001


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

>I used to work at a place where they'd locked down all the machines.
>You couldn't even change the time!  Of course they weren't running NTP
>or anything useful like that so the clocks were up to 20 minutes out.
>Made using Outlook/Exchange to schedule meetings absolutely useless
>because some people would turn up 10 minutes early, some 10 minutes
>late.

My old Uni had a lab of WinNT machines, which they locked down so hard
that you couldn't even make the task bar auto hideable! Except you could
still change the screen resolution and refresh, and thus destroy the
monitors if you so wished!

Christian

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