Tagman

5y

How to block productivity:

I am currently a working student at a huge corporation and tasked to write some smallish java applications. Nothing unusual.

To actually be able to write and compile java programs I need a JDK.
Except that the last corporate update for java removed my jdk and left me with only a jre. It so happened that my admin rights ran out.

To be able to install a new jdk, I need elevated rights, which I need to request. The fucking problem is nobody of my department, who I could talk to, is here or online to accept the request.

Guess who is now sitting in front of his dysfunctional dev environment :/

rant

lift me up

admin hell

devops

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nibor

4938

5y

That's nothing, the SLA for our IT department to grant local admin rights to developer machines is 5 days. Guess who spent a week doing sfa when my laptop needed rebuilding
4

JoshBent

25798

5y

Remote into a VPS that is billed hourly and do your work.
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LinusCDE

3037

5y

Don't most IDEs include their own JDK anyway?
I don't know when the last time was, I needed to install the JDK alongside Eclipse in a company.
Jetbrains should have that, too.
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Tagman

56

5y

@LinusCDE isn't IntelliJ only bundled with an JRE?
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LinusCDE

3037

5y

@Tagman May be possible. I'm only guessing that since there is a packet called IntellijJDK (or JetbrainsJDK) in the AUR (Linux).
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AI-Overlord

1504

5y

@LinusCDE intellij does not have a jdk included
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AI-Overlord

1504

5y

@evilian are u dumb?
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swablu

215

5y

You can install a portable open jdk or even use 7zip to extract the official jdk from exe (without admin rights obviously)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...
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LinusCDE

3037

5y

@AI-Overlord https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/...
Look at the upstream repo. Seems to be legit from them.

But it's probably not included. There you're right.
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Tagman

56

5y

@evilian i wish i could :/
It's an utility program that uses a java library to trigger queries for our current vcs.
My boss would not allow me, cause "we've done the rest of these utilities in java, not gonna change it."
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Tagman

56

5y

@swablu I used the java server jdk in the end. It's called an JRE at the download page but includes javac.

Got it from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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swablu

215

5y

@Tagman yupp!

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