Comments on: When IT Blocks Facebook, Multiply, Youtube

By: Howard

Howard — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:35:22 +0000

i believe there are two kinds of I.T. or sysadmins. First are the controlfreaks and powertrippers who think that the user is the enemy and the other one who treats users as coworkers. As a sysadmin myself, I choose to be on the second group. It’s easy to become “strict” and block/remove all services/access to what one may think as potential security risk, time/bandwidth wasters and other stuff that users enjoy. But doing this is missing the point of INFORMATION Technology and very few I.T. people recognize the users as the reason for their employment. I’d like to think that as an I.T. it’s one of my job to make access to the Internet/Information available to everyone in the company while finding balance between security, usability and control. Any policy that requires people “to be responsible” will not work because that’s human nature. Any I.T. worth his salt must know how to find balance between usability and a network that is resistant to “user abuse”. The technology to do this is available and even come built-in to most of the routers. Features such as QOS, scheduled access, traffic shaping, etc. can do the trick, as oppossed to unceremoniously totally blocking anything they think is a threat or a waste of time. This is very important if the company’s business is in the field of media/arts and the users are the “creative” people such as artists and writers because they do much more quality work if they are not frustrated. The same applies to call-centers. How can the agent solve the caller’s problem immediately if he/she can not research on Google because web browsing is not allowed? My 2 cents. :)

By: Jozzua

Jozzua — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:16:12 +0000

LOL. Ahh life.

By: Maki

Maki — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:24:25 +0000

Haha, I can totally sympathize now with our Barracuda system now Ely. :p I’ve been trying to impose myself not to bring my macbook with my broadband kit to avoid social networking sites.

Hugz. LMAO

By: Jozzua

Jozzua — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:51:05 +0000

Rmartinez.. i think it’s because of the word “Guitar” heheh

By: rmartinez

rmartinez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:48:11 +0000

http://www.guitarchic.net/ I mean…

By: rmartinez

rmartinez — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:47:45 +0000

funny I clicked riz’s link and barracuda said guitarchick.net is “Not Work Related”

By: Jozzua

Jozzua — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:32:08 +0000

Riz, Yep. Kailangan i-blog.

Mae. Pfft.

By: Mae

Mae — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:21:11 +0000

You are robots you are paid to work and not to have fun. *drone, drone, drone, drone*

By: Riz

Riz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:36:17 +0000

Lol Ely, di mo kinaya? Kelangan i-blog? :)

Seriously though, it has become more difficult for the SEO team to find new marketing avenues to get links from when that Barracudracula keeps popping here and there. It’s funny how we want to jump into the web 2.0 bandwagon, and yet block the most important web 2.0 sites out there.

By: Jozzua

Jozzua — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:32:21 +0000

Hahaha. No prob.

I still hold on to the information-sharing credo. Share the info – who’re the bandwidth hogs? Let everyone see. Have dynamic bandwidth monitor per PC. When it suddenly spikes – then everyone knows someone is “youtubing” or streaming. Work on the “embarassment”/peer-pressure.

I sincerely think it’s much more effective that way (long term).