‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CIO Responds

Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by alistairSH on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:24AM (#30115724)

While I agree that we over-fund out military, probably by an order of magnitude, I still want our military to be functional. And that requires good IT. The two goals should not be mutually exclusive.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by zbrozek on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#30115831)

IT departments in large organizations often see their users as adversaries rather than customers. The department's goal isn't to enable productivity but to prevent computing. This is probably WAI.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by curi0sity on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:45AM (#30116050)

Sounds like somebody thinks they need root access to the production servers.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by wizzwizz4 on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:06AM (#30116407)

Try getting an unprivileged Python REPL to run on a “managed” computer. (Yet you can probably make arbitrary kernel32.dll calls from an Excel spreadsheet.)

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