Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? 258
An anonymous reader writes "I work as an IT administrator at a school. We have just upgraded our entire webcam inventory (about 45 webcams, model Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX) and have all the old ones sitting around. I would like to know what a neat project would be to make use of all the old ones. I was figuring there would be an open project somewhere that involved mass amounts of webcams."
Re:Get permission first (Score:4, Insightful)
...if they needed a password reset, their manager had to also be verified and approve them having their password reset. Stupidest policy ever.
Where I work, as soon as we (IT) even hears a rumor that an employee has been canned, we change the password on their account; we don't delete the account until the employee's manager gives us the okay. In an environment like that, having a manager request the password reset makes complete sense, because the last thing you want is a newly fired employee calling you to reset his password so he can sabotage and/or steal confidential data.