*rant*how to cripple a computer?

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I've started a new job 3 months ago and right from day one I realised my computer was not upto the job. I've gone through the official channels to request a new one and the company ordered 3 but gave them to the longest serving people, with me supposedly having a cast off but 3 weeks later, nothing has happened. I even brought my home machine in to use but after a month sat on the side, they decided I couldn't use it. the IT department here a slow and are a law to themselves.
Is there a way to cripple my machine which is undetectable? should I do this? This machine is driving me mad, I've gone from a good spec machine to a crappy p4 office machine with onboard graphics when i'm a 3d draughtsman... frustrating.... rant over

p.s. excuse typos as I'm on my phone.... to scared to use the works computer!
 
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i have a similar problem
i'd suggest a sneaky bit of damage to the motherboard, perhaps rip out a capacitor or 10?
 
I was going to say install Nortons AV on it but that's rather detectable. P4?! That's a dream to me! I'm on a 1.2ghz Athlon with 128mb ram! The moment XP boots up, it starts grinding the hard disk with a vengeance :p

What ya need is something to either downclock your rig, or munch cpu cycles, whilst being undetectable...hmmm. Ya got access to the bios? :D
 
if I was to do it, it would have to be something subtle, not just breaking it. I don't want to damage hardware really, I was thinking software??
 
I know it might be seen as simply playful banter, but what you're talking about is vandalism of someone else's property.
 
bah just mess up the registry if you are admin of the computer :) or better yet a bit of WD40 in the fan, then complain of a burning smell, they would soon swap it out in fear of fire :D
 
efanZ said:
I know it might be seen as simply playful banter, but what you're talking about is vandalism of someone else's property.
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this was why I was thinking software, because after they got me a new one mine would be refomatted etc and re-used (i think)
 
Inquisitor said:
What do you use the computer for at work? A P4 sounds fine for an office computer to me, and it's not like you need a good graphics card :confused:
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3d cad is its use. put it like this, I used to have a decent dual core machine /quadro graphics card/scsi/24" wide +20" normal. now I have a crappy office spec one which isn't upto the job, believe me. I can live without the monitors by the way :)

no admin right though
 
Inform the management that you can't perform the job to the best of your abilities on the ****heap of a computer you have? You never know, they may decide to invest in a machine that screams along.
 
Most likely they have an image they use for staff pcs, so if you break the software they will just ghost that over it and give it straight back to you (It wont take long to do this at all so you probably wont get a back up, they can just do it in your lunch hour)

I'd be suprised if there wasnt a security tag on the case of your pc as well, so they will know if you have opened the case.
 
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Just keep onto them until they get you a new machine, but I would strongly advice against "crippling" your current machine.
 
Run SETI in the background or something in low priority. Maybe that will occupy a 'bit' of CPU time for you to at least show them how slow the rig is.

I do a lot of photo editing on my rig and it's painfully slow. I've asked for it's ram to be upped from 128mb to 512mb but am still awaiting for that to happen. I've even considered bringing my XPS lappy into work but given the type of work I do (military stuffs) I can't see our IS dept letting me do that.
 
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