How many of us running on a network have written or verbal permission to do so?

[rocketmanx]

Just a question inspired by the RC5 thread. I know we have a few sysadmins on our MURC team and was just curious how many people running a distributed computing project on someone elses computers has either verbal (from the owner) or written permission. I'm our sysadmin- no computer training just can't stop tinkerin' I'm also (one of) the owner (21 comps total) so I have permission to do whatever I feel won't hinder everyday operations or cause any possible loss of data. My brother (we work together) is way more practical and the one with computer training so we disagree VERY often
Pete

[Guru]

We don't infact we are told not to run any distributed software on the comps!!! Thats wy we use genome stealth!

[box]

As a sysadmin, I actually have it in writing, that I have total control over whats installed on our computers, and whats not.

It should be said, that being a sysadmin, I tested GaH extensivly before distributing it, as I would never install anything that could interfere with daily bussiness. (I'll leave that to the users, webshots/gator anyone )

Anyway most of my output is @home...

[Guyver]

Uhh - I own my network... 6 PCs and 1 laptop.

Guyver

[Rattledagger]

Since the applications names is @home, I'm only running it at home.

[Paulr]

As a lot of the other replies have said.
I am the Systems Administrator.
For that reason I have 5 or 6 machines all running SETI.
I guess if push came to shove I could give myself written permission - but I really can't be arsed!

[breezer]

Ok, giving yourself permission is one thing but...

Do you have an acceptable use policy, does it say things like

• the use of facilities that causes detriment to their work and performance and / or causes unwarranted additional cost to the organisation (disk space, memory, processor cycles and electric costs)
• the transmission of unsolicited commercial, or, advertising material, commercial activity, or, for private profit (I believe that THINK is a commercial activity)
• wasting networked resources (Bandwidth)
• use of local or network diskspace for the storage of unauthorised applications, games or media files

This is the good one

• Where the local network is being used to access another network, any abuse of the acceptable use policy of that network will be regarded as unacceptable use of the local network. (got me there, I don't know what networks are passed through when my data is going from here to berkley)

Check your in-house documentation and your ISPs acceptable use policy, you may just be breaking one of these with out knowing it.
...and of course, ignorance is not a defence...

[Paulr]

Yer, but all the in-house documentation is either written by me or I see it before it goes 'live'.
All I need to do is creat a:

Sub Section 1A.
At the Sys Admin's discretion, distributed programs such as the SETI@Home project may be ran on company owned PC's.

All done

[SteveC]

I'm the sys admin at my work too for any machines I have installed SETI@Home onto. I've done some simple tests with SETI@Home seeing how it affects performance of our servers too, and find it hardly noticable. I haven't put it on any machines I can get in trouble for doing so, nor have I put it on any 'mission critical' or 'irritating client' servers.

[Electric Amish]

The only systems I run it on at work are at my workstation. They are just old, un-used systems that I have setup to run Seti/Genome.

amish