Am I screwed?

[genericuser]

You have to have XP professional in order for RDP to work.

Secondarily, the moment you use one of those gotomypc sites, all sorts of red flags get put on your account so I'd avoid that.

the sysadmin has spoken.

 

[07speed3]

You have to have XP professional in order for RDP to work.

Secondarily, the moment you use one of those gotomypc sites, all sorts of red flags get put on your account so I'd avoid that.

the sysadmin has spoken.

true but he could always just say he uses it to bring work over that he does at home...idk.

 

[Bu11dogg2]

Convince your boss that you'd be more productive with an auxillary lap-top. Login to one with guest access, and the other with employee access. One for work, and one for play.

Just make sure to have a pie-chart or something minimized on the toolbar of your play computer in case your boss walks in.

I have an extra Computer. I'm just too lazy to move it into my office :lol:

Luckily for me my boss has only come to visit me once, and she called me and told me she was coming over

logmein.com ?

you'd use that site to access your home PC and you can do whatever the hell you want at that point...

I could do that. thanks for teh heads up!

 

[TreFlip999]

www.scoobidoo.net

 

[jred321]

you could try miranda IM

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive.

http://www.miranda-im.org/

 

[jred321]

but odds are if they blocked the server/port you're screwed

 

[genericuser]

most good webfilters block the port and server.. so no matter what client you use, it won't work.

 

[jred321]

you can always try the "Auto configure" option under connections where it tries different servers/ports

 

[tlonon]

Dammit, vtunnel is blocked here at work.. Never used it before.

sorry I didn't elaborate
You got to put in

https://www.vtunnel.com/


if you put in http it won't work

 

[genericuser]

you can always try the "Auto configure" option under connections where it tries different servers/ports

again.. any webfilter/firewall worth its weight will block this.

 

[jred321]

ours didn't. if you changed the port to 80 it would work, all others were blocked. they've since changed it so it works out of the box. i wonder though if it wasn't intentional to leave it open like it was since AIM comes on the standard build just without any shortcuts anywhere. either way it's worth a shot since it's so simple and maybe you could get lucky

 

[MiaTurbo]

If they block it, and you get around it, that's terms for dismissal. We will find it. IT guys are smarter than users. That's why users are users and not in IT, and we will find out in less time than it takes to send your SO a note to say: I'm back on AIM! We will then make an example of you, tighten your internet access more, and generally make things worse if HR decides not to can you.

You are not at home. You are at work. You are not on your PC. You are on your employeer's workstation and network.

 

[genericuser]

Couldn't have said it better.

 

[mckraut]

Do what I do, remote desktop to your workstation at home. That's how I get all my IMing and web browsing done at work during downtime.

 

[MiaTurbo]

Do what I do, remote desktop to your workstation at home. That's how I get all my IMing and web browsing done at work during downtime.

Yeah, we block all that outbound too.

 

[genericuser]

that and it isn't exactly hard to find you doing that.

it's just port 3389.

and if you do manage to figure out how to do a port redirect on your router or computer at home, usually the daily reports that the IT department gets includes a small section where an unusual amount of traffic is going from your machine to an external IP through one single port.

Trust me.. It ain't worth it dude..

 

[jred321]

just always remember - system admins hate fun so they do everything they can to prevent it

 

[mckraut]

Yeah, we block all that outbound too.

Well, not everyone does what your company does. So it's worth a try.

 

[genericuser]

just always remember - system admins hate fun so they do everything they can to prevent it

or we enforce company security policies so the company doesn't get slammed on a security audit.

Sarbanes Oxley ring a bell?

 

[jred321]

sox just means you have to have a record of communications, not that they have to be blocked. it also doesn't apply to private companies.

enforcing policies is fine, it doesn't make things fun though. blaming a sys admin for enforcing a rule you don't agree with is the same as blaming a police officer for enforcing a law you don't agree with. the person who makes the law doesn't get the blame, the cop does.