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> I'm on a bit of a rampage of late because I just took a new
> sysadmin job and found that the IT department policies are
> so absurdly strict that I can't even install my choice of
> text editors on the PC there. There is a short (very short)
> list of allowed software (almost all of it proprietary, of
> course) and I'm just stuck with it. There I am running a
> million-dollar system running (nee) OS/400 and on the front
> end I'm stuck with Windows and notepad.exe. Point...
> grunt... point... grunt.