Re: life at macrosoft?

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 > From: "Mike M." <http://profiles.yahoo.com/handmeat>
 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:34:43 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > huh, not really, you talking about a windows box?

Yeah.

 > the hardware i've used is out-of-the-box, i've
 > literally opened up a box direct from Dell before, but
 > to be on corpnet on Windows you have to be running
 > some internal antivirus software that always runs and
 > is part of the "group policy" in windows that you
 > can't change, so it's basically impossible to remove,
 > and probably a bad idea to remove anyway (tho I always
 > turn off the "real time" feature).

We have McAfee anti-virus at work.  It hasn't bothered me so far.  The
only problem I had was Windows's firewall -- which of course I poke holes
in.

Can you/do you use ssh?  That's not blocked, right?

I also install http://www.colinux.org on my Windows machines so I can run
all my home-written programs without porting 'em.  I hope I can install
that, as well as Cygwin, Firefox, and Gaim.

 > if you're running linux, i have no idea.  maybe they
 > build an antivirus client for linux too, or maybe they
 > don't let you on corpnet :)

Yeah, I think you aren't allowed on the corporate network.  At least,
that's the impression I have.

I may just keep two computers, then -- one for doing my work, and the
other for accessing the corporate network (i.e., reading e-mail).  Seems
such a waste to have an entire computer just for reading e-mail, 'tho.

 > BTW i heard something like $7.56/share .. i know a
 > couple guys who have 10k and 20k shares respectively
 > so they made out OK.

Ah, good to know.  I suppose.