*rant*how to cripple a computer?

Purchase a pack of balloons.
Blow one up to a large size.
Furiously rub against your body, preferably the head.
Accidentally discharge all the pent up static on the motherboard.

You could alos have a read through here
 
k3v said:
128mb your joking right? looks like you're worse than me then!
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Hehe. Picture the scene: XP with 128mb of ram loading up with McAfee AV, VNC, A1Sync (something like that) and other bloat. Virtual memory gets hit right away and its a sludge fest. Hope you get your pc sorted :)
 
Hang on, so you had a decent computer, which from day one was not up to the job by your own words?:confused:

It sounds like you also don't get on with your IT department from your disparaging remarks about them, but how do you know they aren't trying to help? Maybe their hands are tied with other stuff?

Why would your boss "speak out" against the IT director, what has he got to "speak out" against, he is only asking for equipment to do the job surely? If your boss is really that spineless, you need to go above him.

Is 3D cad the whole or part of your job? If you are doing it on a daily basis, then you shouldn't be using a machine with on-board graphics even as a temporary measure. It sounds like either someone has spent all the budget or is taking the mickey.

As for hobbling your machine, do you also find graffiti on the walls acceptable? What about cutting holes in the office chairs?

If the IT department are under severe financial constraint, as it sounds, causing them more expense really won't make you any friends or help matters.
 
if you can, uninstall the graphics drivers.
when windows next boots it will load the default VGA drivers, so everything involving the graphics card (like dragging a window) will slow down considerably.
 
Well, as an IT admin, I can tell you. We might not get around to your problem as soon as you'd like. However if you do something to stuff up a PC, its more than likely we would be able to tell. Plus if it did blow up, we'd have one equally as poor sitting in a cupboard somewhere to replace it with.

Your best route is to talk to your boss. Point out the problem and hope he has enough sense to do something about it.
 
Deal with it.

It's not your computer to break and you'll end up on the wrong side of a gross misconduct charge if you're rumbled.
If you have to work slowly because of the computer, then work slowly. If they can't see that a better computer would make you more productive, then it's their loss, not yours.
 
markyp23 said:
We have E6400s with 2GB of RAM at school.

We Scottish get all your tax money obviously. :rolleyes: (rolleyes before someone says it).
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Cool.

I had this:

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:p
 
Thanks for all the replies, as per usual this forum doesn't disappoint with its range of replies


mejinks said:
Hang on, so you had a decent computer, which from day one was not up to the job by your own words?:confused:

It sounds like you also don't get on with your IT department from your disparaging remarks about them, but how do you know they aren't trying to help? Maybe their hands are tied with other stuff?

Why would your boss "speak out" against the IT director, what has he got to "speak out" against, he is only asking for equipment to do the job surely? If your boss is really that spineless, you need to go above him.

Is 3D cad the whole or part of your job? If you are doing it on a daily basis, then you shouldn't be using a machine with on-board graphics even as a temporary measure. It sounds like either someone has spent all the budget or is taking the mickey.

As for hobbling your machine, do you also find graffiti on the walls acceptable? What about cutting holes in the office chairs?

If the IT department are under severe financial constraint, as it sounds, causing them more expense really won't make you any friends or help matters.
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I used to have a good computer at my last job, it is the computer I have at my new place of work, that I have a problem with.
As for getting on with the IT department, I'm sure they **** me off behind my back but I am always polite with them. This is the first job I have had where there are problems with IT that take ages to fix (Maybe I've been lucky). Tell me if I am being unreasonable with the following.

Outlook doesn't automatically tell me when emails arrive, I have to go into the inbox and click something, then they appear, either that or I wait half an hour or so for them to come through. Reported it 3 months ago on the It call log thingy, IT reply with "to be fixed within a week", its still not working.
I need to open Autocad dwg files using a freebie viewer, its out of date and needs a newer version putting on. Its now fixed this morning after 3 months, took 5 mins.
Ive brought my own mouse in, its an intellimouse explorer, it has extra buttons which I mapped to do things, i asked for permission and it was ok'd, the y downloaded the drivers for me, they got the wrong ones, mouse drivers still not fixed 3 months on.
These problems are minor but to me that makes the whole situation worse as it really should not be an issue.
I use 3d cad all day its a package called strucad and when you have a big model it can bring a high spec machine to its knees, never mind a generic office machine. The company has a turn over of around £40 million and I'm currently working on a job which is worth £1 million to them and they are dragging there heels in buying me a £600 machine. The problem is that about 30 machines all need replacing its just are slightly better than mine me being a new starter means i'm probably at the back of the queue. It doesnt stop me getting frustrated when you are under pressure to get something done and you have to wait 5-6 minutes to do something which should take 20 seconds.
Just to clarify I probably wont do anything to the machine as other than the IT issues it a good company to work for with regards to money/perks.
 
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