Yeah, but when people like us have problems with the IT department is not their fault. Usually, some pointy haired "genious" from upstairs has decided to apply stupid security policies all over the enterprise so that, for instance, no one is allowed root access in their own machine. I can see this working for Marketing people using Windows machines that get to install whatever they download, however we are still trying to explain them that it is just not efficient to issue a ticket every time we want to use the parallel port (maybe I'm exaggerating here, but otherwise they won't get it). At the end, all of us have dual boot machines with the "enterprise Ubuntu 6.06" on one partition (just in case anyone asks) and our preferred Linux distro without restrictions on the other (and this is where we expend 100% of the time... and I guess this will continue like this until someone finds out) What I mean is that we ALL hate the IT guys for this particular problem, make funny jokes about them and mumble in the cafeteria... And sadly, it is not their fault at all: they are just following orders

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