Anounced Today - No Mod Laptops To Go Home...
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I had to do a project demo to a company (part of an IPT thing)
No lap top.
No cd burner in the office.
USB keys not allowed due to regs.
So I took a floppy disk. Well I looked a total plonka at the company company demo.....standing there with a floppy disk......their computer used for the presentation had no floppy drive.... and they had not seen a floppy drive for donkey's years.
And the folks was only last year.
The RAF beats you with a stick with rules and regs, treats you like a thief, and never gives you the damn tools to do the job, however they expect you to do the job.
So what does everone do? Well 2 options:
1. You do the work on your own private laptop and break every rule in the book.
2. You continue with your RAF issue floppy disk looking even more of a total plonka.
Tools to do the job! Simple no tools the job does not get done.
I just wish more folks in the service would do option 2 above then things might get sorted.
No lap top.
No cd burner in the office.
USB keys not allowed due to regs.
So I took a floppy disk. Well I looked a total plonka at the company company demo.....standing there with a floppy disk......their computer used for the presentation had no floppy drive.... and they had not seen a floppy drive for donkey's years.
And the folks was only last year.
The RAF beats you with a stick with rules and regs, treats you like a thief, and never gives you the damn tools to do the job, however they expect you to do the job.
So what does everone do? Well 2 options:
1. You do the work on your own private laptop and break every rule in the book.
2. You continue with your RAF issue floppy disk looking even more of a total plonka.
Tools to do the job! Simple no tools the job does not get done.
I just wish more folks in the service would do option 2 above then things might get sorted.
You could always turn up with a huge pile of OHP slides......
I'm surprised that CIS-Plod didn't tell you that even unformatted floppy disks could be "Han sickurity risk, ho-yus"....
The infuriating projection systems some parts of the RAF use cannot even be connected to an external speaker's laptop these days, it seems...
They never have the correct cables and even if you supply one, there's inevitably a faff with blue screens and bemused audiences as 'INPUT SEL' and other geek-hieroglyphics appear on the corners of the screen to muted applause, whilst various attempts are made by increasingly senior officers grappling with a remote control of unfathomable complexity (and flat batteries) to persuade a picture to appear on the screen!
I'm surprised that CIS-Plod didn't tell you that even unformatted floppy disks could be "Han sickurity risk, ho-yus"....
The infuriating projection systems some parts of the RAF use cannot even be connected to an external speaker's laptop these days, it seems...
They never have the correct cables and even if you supply one, there's inevitably a faff with blue screens and bemused audiences as 'INPUT SEL' and other geek-hieroglyphics appear on the corners of the screen to muted applause, whilst various attempts are made by increasingly senior officers grappling with a remote control of unfathomable complexity (and flat batteries) to persuade a picture to appear on the screen!
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I've just written an impact statement relating to this nonsense.
One of the options is to use our own laptops for (UNCLAS) ops data. I am quite happy to use mine as long as they pay me - it's £150 a day, and the mouse is extra, as is the Office Software!
It wouldn't be so bad if we knew what the approved encryption means was, but as far as we can tell, the powers that be don't know yet or aren't saying.
I am guessing Kilgetty or Stonegate or some such. What's the betting it's about £500 a machine?
STH
One of the options is to use our own laptops for (UNCLAS) ops data. I am quite happy to use mine as long as they pay me - it's £150 a day, and the mouse is extra, as is the Office Software!
It wouldn't be so bad if we knew what the approved encryption means was, but as far as we can tell, the powers that be don't know yet or aren't saying.
I am guessing Kilgetty or Stonegate or some such. What's the betting it's about £500 a machine?
STH
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STH,
Our section needs laptops in order to carry out some of our primary functions, but this has now stopped until the appropriate security software goes on board. We have been quoted by the plods at £250 - £300 per laptop for a license and... yes you've guessed it.... there is no budget to pay for these and so this work has to stop.
or is it 
?
They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!
Our section needs laptops in order to carry out some of our primary functions, but this has now stopped until the appropriate security software goes on board. We have been quoted by the plods at £250 - £300 per laptop for a license and... yes you've guessed it.... there is no budget to pay for these and so this work has to stop.
or is it ?They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!
