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? by gay4conoroberst

this whole ALT+Tab thing has opened new possibilities in slacking at work so now I went to instal messenger but when I try it says something like 'you dont haver admin rights to install this program for all users on this computer' or something. Is there any way around this? I know theres webmessenger and stuff but id prefer the proper one if possible

gay4conoroberst | 19 Jul '06, 21:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i feel so responsible

although i quit like the idea of being held accountable for a furher decline in british productivity.

guntrip | 19 Jul '06, 21:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

civil servant is well

all your tax payers money

gay4conoroberst | 19 Jul '06, 21:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that's what i am.

and prole.
amazing.

guntrip | 19 Jul '06, 21:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that's what i was

yeah.
until they (quite rightfully) sacked me.
yeah.
installing stuff was a bitch. but i DID find a way around it. but i'll be buggered if i can remember how...

shadyadie | 19 Jul '06, 22:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

who did you work for?

why did you get sacked?
spill it.

guntrip | 19 Jul '06, 22:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

not

telling.

shadyadie | 20 Jul '06, 00:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

wow sacked

it takes, like, 4 years to sack someone where I work

gay4conoroberst | 19 Jul '06, 22:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

even

if you're a temp?

shadyadie | 20 Jul '06, 00:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

ah

a temp working on my team got fired a few years ago. he sent around a load of links supposedly "proving" that the 7/7 bombings were actually conducted by british / israeli intelligence.
he sent this to EVERYONE who works for the council, including all the councillors.
good one, craig.

guntrip | 20 Jul '06, 09:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

You need to

get friendly with an IT technician.

They can change your privilege level to allow you to install things on your PC (not across the network).

Worked for me.

coxy1102 | 19 Jul '06, 21:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

normally I can't install anything

at work because of admin rights (centrally controlled by university), but today I finally tried the last fm thing and it works! Hurrah! Now I can post in those chart threads...

seeingotherpeople | 19 Jul '06, 22:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I can help

Just use the web messenger thingy. It's messenger in a web browser so you don't need to download fck all. Really just blatently designed for works computers.

http://webmessenger.msn.com/

Now just ctrl alt away to your hearts content

johneeboy | 19 Jul '06, 23:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply