Clown users.

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

I got a request for computers for salesmen who go to vendor shows:

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In my opinion, perfect show machines should have:



Hardware:

- 4 to 8 GB RAM (I find RAM makes a big difference in performance)

- If possible solid state drive (SSD), which would make a huge speed difference over
conventional drive.

- Dedicated hardware graphics card (makes a difference in PPT screenshow and video
playback)

- Decent audio card (for video playback + walk-in/walk-out)

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1 These are for laptops.
2 These machine run POWERPOINT, and that's it.
3 These machines will be running 32-bit WinXP.

Idiots.

Comments

[egearman.livejournal.com]

As long as it is charged to their budget and not yours?

Get them some machines that do the job and put the ram to good use elsewhere. And dummy up the BIOS to report what you want it to. And as a good measure, set fire to their desk.


In my defense, I may have been reading a little too much BOFH lately.

[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

hey he tried right?

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

Just the desk?

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

It's not considered professional to include "Must run Crysis" in the requisition paperwork, even when that is the main operational requirement.

[jecook]

... considering that crysis won't see anything above what the OS sees for memory (and XP32 only sees 3.2mumble Gbytes at most)...

I spent a few hours speccing out my replacement work machine- currently I've got a dell precision workstation, and frankly, I'm thinking that something smaller that still has a DVD burner and dual monitors will work well enough for what I do with it.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

In other news, Portal 2 is coming out soon and the salesforce wants to be ready for it.

[egearman.livejournal.com]

You have to same something for their Christmas gift.

[taiki.livejournal.com]

Lift tiles from the server room, invite them in for a quick tour.

[jecook]

*nods*

Things like running virtualPC on the local workstation for some stuff? YES, absolutely.

Me, I'll put my VMs on the uber grunty ESX cluster we have. (6 nodes, 96 GB ram, 14 Tbyte SAN on tap, no waiting.)

PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[childofstrings.livejournal.com]

Wow a fucking moron.

I call WoW Faggot

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

As long as it is charged to their budget and not yours?

Pretty much. If they're paying, and the relevant budget isn't something that might have been able to be wangled over to IT, let them buy hyper-super-Alienware laptops from the twelfth dimension.

However, note also that any machines purchased for company use/support will need one or two spares which can be swapped in if an in-use machine is damaged or lost. Those spares will be kept in-house and constantly kept up to date so they're ready to go at a moment's notice (meaning the IT department gets to hold on to them).

Woo, two free megalappies!

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[biggeek.livejournal.com]

Why are you using the offensive, homophobic term "faggot" in a tech forum? Twice?

[tullamoredew.livejournal.com]

dual core and 6Gb of RAM is HEAVY into virtualization? then I'll shut up about the monsters I just recently moved from under my desk to the server room :)

[caira.livejournal.com]

You have more faith in the sales team's tech savvy than I do . . .

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[wibbble]

It's commonly used as a replacement for 'person' in 4chan/Anon circles, much like 'cunt' is in Glasgow.

[tullamoredew.livejournal.com]

ah, that's closer to the typical developer system here :) by monsters I mean toys with about 1+ Tb of RAM and 128-256 cores

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Perhaps so, but this clearly isn't 4chan.

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[childofstrings.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your offended by the term, but as explained by the above user, the word is used differently in this context.

The fact that this is a tech community is part of the reason why I used the term "WoW Faggot" here. With the understanding that most people in tech communities have heard it used elsewhere in 4chan OR on the internet in general, and understand the meaning I am alluding to. You may not be in 4chan, but you are on the internet.

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

You go ahead and justify it however you like. Doesn't make it right, or welcome here.

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[childofstrings.livejournal.com]

And you are????

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Oh for fuck's sake, just because your /b/ buddies are a bunch of juvenile fuckwits, it doesn't mean you can bring your homophobic bullshit anywhere you like. Piss off with your pathetic justification.

/in b4 freeeeeedom of spppeeeeeech

Re: PPTS REQUIRE NVIDIA FERMIS IN SLI

[childofstrings.livejournal.com]

Unless I find something in the comm rules or a mod approaches me about this, I'm going to continue not giving a shit about what CONCERNED CITIZENS OF THE INTERNET feel on this issue. Especially considering that if you don't understand this context/humor I highly doubt you work in tech support.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

The SSD is still a /really/ good idea for a prezo machine. It's really easy to say "well you should always have your machine warmed up and ready ahead of time", but in the real world you inevitably end up with salesdroids and marketing execs with cold lappies, and it can put a POWERFUL hurt on the flow of a presentation waiting on a conventional drive to boot up, populate all the dreck in the system tray, fuck around some more, sort of kind of start working in slow mode... et cetera.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_caecus_/]

Yeah, and I need an tank to get to work. Now that I think about it, my drive to work would probably be a lot less stressful. Hm...