I worked at a place once where a tech got a ticket on the internet being slow. His resolution was moved internet throttle from yellow to red and closed the ticket out.
But it saves hundreds, and the computers have i7 processors, so they'll be fast no matter what!
I believe that I would give up half of my RAM and jump back a full processor generation before I'd give up my SSD.
The funny thing is I build them with i3 processors and SSDs while a sister company builds them with i7s and 1TB drives. Which one gets less complaints? The IT guy over there was surprised to see we only use i3 processors in our machines. Why would we spend resources on a processor an avg corp user never uses? Better to take the money and alleviate a real bottleneck.
My mother has a slow computer with XP she uses for web browsing and word processing and it can take upwards of 15-20 seconds to get anything to work sometimes. (computer programs, not talking internet/lantecy ms) Intensive scan with avast and spybot turns up nothing, uses chrome with adblock, latest flash and security updates (outside of ended XP support) even ccleaner cleaning the system out and cleaning the registry plus defragging the harddrive doesn't seem to help. Reinstalling windows would probably do the trick, but still. Makes you wonder just what it is that bogs down a well maintained machine, even if it is old.
EVERYONES COMPUTER IS SLOW, I DONT GIVE A F!!!
So sick of fucking idiots who complain that their computer is sooo slow, yet they sit there and open the same program 50 times because it didnt instantly open the first time
I hate stupid people, and im surrounded by them.
At my own place of work, even the QA gets i7 machines complete with Radeon 6600 GPUs and 8 GB RAM (the rest of us get Haswell and Sandy i5s). But still using pokey HDDs. Even Excel is rarely used. Were I in charge of IT, most everyone would be on Celerons/Pentiums (the non-Atom ones), 4 GB RAM, and 64 GB SSDs.The funny thing is I build them with i3 processors and SSDs while a sister company builds them with i7s and 1TB drives. Which one gets less complaints? The IT guy over there was surprised to see we only use i3 processors in our machines. Why would we spend resources on a processor an avg corp user never uses? Better to take the money and alleviate a real bottleneck.
Indeed
I think the users that complain a lot are creating a boy who cried wolf situation, which jades the IT folk into thinking everybody is full of shit when there's some real problems out there. A good IT person knows the users well enough to know when certain people complain, it actually means something because they usually know how to handle simple computer issues on their own. A bad IT person says "everyone's computer is slow", and they also don't seem to give a F(?).
Dear Users,
Faster hardware is paid for by executives who allocate funds.
The executives have very nice computers, and get new ones every year or two.
Incidentally, they also think everything is nice and fast and don't see why we need a quarter million dollars a year for new desktops in the cubicle farm, since all you guys do is Excel and Word, but they have to use heavy duty multimedia applications like Powerpoint. So, we didn't get the funding, and any new computers will be purchased at Best Buy, then equipped with 160GB, 5400rpm hard drives pulled from the old ones.
In order to comply with new security rules pushed by the CIO, we will be implementing deep packet inspection on all production (cubicle farm) networks. (The network in the executive suite is exempt from this requirement, since they don't do source code or code review.) This will slow things down considerably, since we can't afford a new firewall with a requisite beefy CPU - we are simply enabling packet inspection on our 20-year-old firewall appliance made by that company that went bankrupt because its products performed so poorly.
Pursuant to the other recommendations made by the consulting company that the CIO hired (his son runs it - nice guy, you'd like him. He bought us hamburgers.), we will now be enforcing a required password change every 30 days. Your password will need to be at least 18 characters long, contain at least three uppercase letters, one number, and two special characters. The system will remember the last 87 passwords you used, so no fair recycling.
The CIO also came back last week from the annual FreeBSD Developer's conference in Las Vegas last month. (He was already in Vegas, so he took some vacation days.) Apparently, we are going to need to change some of our core servers from Windows to FreeBSD, because it is free. However, we aren't getting any new reqs from HR to hire people who are experienced FreeBSD sysadmins. So please bear with us while we figure out how this stuff works. (Steve says it's kinda like Linux.)
We got a book called "UNIX for Dummies" but if anybody else has some recommendations, we'd appreciate them. The CIO gave us a $100 gift card to Barnes & Noble for training materials.
Sincerely,
IT
I love it when IT chooses and pushes out the most inefficient encryption and security scanning software, bringing most computers to their knees.
That's great, IT guy, that it ran fine on your Core i7, 8+ GB RAM, SSD "test" machine when most of the company is still running on 4GB, 5400rpm HD machines...
I really should have logged on from home every night, on battery power, so I could get a little free heat while my laptop was pegged, doing nothing productive most of the time.
An SSD was going to accidentally fall into my laptop...then I got a new laptop that had one already. I did buy more RAM for it myself, though.
Did you even read my post?
If it were up to IT we wouldn't give a shit about encryption, its the laws and lawyers that make this shit a requirement. And for the record ANY encryption software without an OPAL drive is going to run like shit.
Same goes for nearly every other policy that doesnt seem to make much sense.
Sincerely,
IT guys that dont want it either.
Compliance is always a nightmare. Standards change and regulatory bodies cant change their policies with little warning and little time to comply.
PSA to CIO:
Kindly keep your IT monkeys locked down in the basement and working the oars where they belong, their complaining is bothering the real workers.
P.S. Remember we're looking for an excuse to offshore you all anyway.
PSA to CIO:
Kindly keep your IT monkeys locked down in the basement and working the oars where they belong, their complaining is bothering the real workers.
P.S. Remember we're looking for an excuse to offshore you all anyway.
IT to CIO: We're cool in the basement, but that offshoring thing... The old CIO offshored us before, now we're back and they are gone.