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We had a filtered internet access at the consulting company I used to work for, which blocked personal mails, social networks and blogging platforms and software downloads (apparently, you need approval of the IT department to install any software on your machine). I subscribed to RSS feeds from tech blogs via Google Reader and deployed a download proxy on my website server to bypass these restrictions.

The same company wouldn't allow flash drives in any of the machines for security reasons. We had a couple of testing Mac Pros on another network where we needed to deploy our application frequently. I installed the USB mass storage drivers back into these machines to enable Flash drive access. Everything was smooth after that.

We weren't using an issue tracker for our application because the in-house tracker was total crap and less usable compared to pen and paper. We weren't permitted to install any other tracker (not even an open source one). Eventually, I took the plunge and (secretly) installed Redmine on my machine. It saved us a lot of time (and a lot of paper, too).