How much do you care for your office/personal computer?
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http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/01/15/trespassers-will-be-shot-on-sight/[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
My work computer is the property of the company; they can do what they like with it. I doubt "they" know that I used Disk Management to create my own partition for my work. :cool:
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My office computer is not mine: it is company's ownership. So I just don't give a flock, and even if I have a support/administration background I don't hesitate to call for support and wash my hands of it. We have old, cheap and painfully slow computers, less licenses than software and many other issues and we all are invariably ignored. Then may them eat their own medicine. I have reaped some to-be-shipped-but-will-never-be (for reliability issues) PCs to increase my disk space (which was a meager 80GB) and RAM (I had 1 GB. With VS2008 it is Hell. Now I have 2 whole GB!). Some day I'll switch entirely to the other PC which has a Pentium G, whuile I'm stuck with a Pentium E. Yes, I know we are in 2015.
Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
den2k88 wrote:
PC which has a Pentium G
Holy hell!!
Jeremy Falcon
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den2k88 wrote:
PC which has a Pentium G
Holy hell!!
Jeremy Falcon
My plan for the end of the year is to grab a second PC of the class that is shipped now, an i5, as a "test machine". The drawback is that in case of shortage of PCs in the storage I'll have a working day to reset the PC with the original components and return it to the storage department, but I'm growing frustrated day by day with my current dinosaur.
Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/01/15/trespassers-will-be-shot-on-sight/[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
I have never asked my company to pay for anything that I might want to take with me. My current laptop (almost 6 yo) and desktop (5+ yo) systems are well cared for and still get the job done quite well. I may look at something new when Win9X is released! That said, when my laptop was new, the (now) wife liked to use it for browsing arsebook, email, playing games, etc..After the third time, I took her shopping for an iPad. It's been quite peaceful since then. Also since then, she upgraded to the iPad2(I think) and I got the old one. It makes a decent enough 'jukebox' for traveling. :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
