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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Sounds like some military/govm't brain child!! lol
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Nope, it's a Telco. I had more flexibility when I worked in the defence industry.
They like to make sure that everyone has the exact same user experience regardless of what machine is being used or what role the user is. I'm an IT test engineer, but they think that I should have they same access as a customer service rep answering the phones.
So I can't install any additional software to do my job (no text editors, no FTP clients, no terminal emulators, no IVR trace tools, etc), took 3 months of constant complaining from my department before they relented and opened up our access. As we can also work from home, we need to be able to VPN into the work network, but to be able to do that from our own PC's (which are generally more powerfull and easier for us to use), we need to install their user profile onto it to be able to log in.
I decided I wasn't going to contaminate my main desktop PC with their profile, so built a separate machine that I could use for this. But as it's also useful to use as a low-powered media/file editing box, hence my using it (used to do all my epub editing on an Atom machine, but since 64bit was dropped, it's become unusable).