[QUOTE=Demache;52753857]I can say with 99% certainty its because they are using old VBScript to implement policies (that can be done without scripts now) or doing something that is unnecessary because someone forgot to turn it off.
I was able to bring the time to login screen down from 15 minutes (no joke) down to just 2 because I started removing old unnecessary scripts that would often fail and just hang until they time out. The other was removing the policy that queries and uninstalls Windows Media Player. And installing Adobe Reader. Every single boot. Some of the scripts are so old, they still check if the machine is running Win 9x.
I have a 5 page Word document making sense of what all the scripts do and why they are there. If I couldn't figure it out or they seemed unnecessary, I turned them off. Broke essentially nothing anybody would notice.
Also, FYI, stop using VBScript to implement network drives. Its clumsy as shit and if you have no network connectivity when you login they fail and don't mount. GPO Drive Maps actually easy to figure out and don't care about network connectivity.[/QUOTE]
Where in the world would you be working that still had scripts like that running, that is pretty bad how did nobody pick up on a 15 minute login time?
I've got a few clients still on shitty logon scripts. One of my first things to do once I officially take over all of Boulder is rewrite proper GPO
[QUOTE=Clive;52753925]Where in the world would you be working that still had scripts like that running, that is pretty bad how did nobody pick up on a 15 minute login time?[/QUOTE]
We bought out a different company and that was just part of the poor state their IT was in. You know the drill, single man show, knew enough to be dangerous but still stuck in his old ways, poor security practices, etc. There's still a lot wrong, but we can't change it until we move away from a 25 year old call scripting program. Sooner we are off Windows 32 bit, the better. Yes, I actually had to deploy Windows 10 32 bit, out of necessity.
Users complained about it, but apparently it had been like that for [b]years[/b] and people just got used to it. He may have been simply stretched too thin given his skill level and couldn't be arsed to fix "trivial issues" like massive logon times.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52753174]You think I'm actually going to click on a link? I'm far too lazy for that.[/QUOTE]
Someone take a screen shot and post it
Aw man: Bell wants me to spend an additional $50 a month if I want to keep my current plan's 6GB of data, should I upgrade my phone on contract.
I quickly did the math and it works out in my favour (over the duration of a 2 year term) to buy a new phone outright. At which stage whats the point in buying a phone via Bell when I can buy direct from Google. The sales rep I was talking to did not enjoy me thinking this out loud in a store full of people in front of his manager.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;52754511]Aw man: Bell wants me to spend an additional $50 a month if I want to keep my current plan's 6GB of data, should I upgrade my phone on contract.
I quickly did the math and it works out in my favour (over the duration of a 2 year term) to buy a new phone outright. At which stage whats the point in buying a phone via Bell when I can buy direct from Google. The sales rep I was talking to did not enjoy me thinking this out loud in a store full of people in front of his manager.[/QUOTE]
Jesus fuck, I can get a 16gb plan for the same amount they wanted to raise it by.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52754530]Jesus fuck, I can get a 16gb plan for the same amount they wanted to raise it by.[/QUOTE]
I pay $40/mo AUD for 15GB of data. How the fuck is Australia better on this regard?
[QUOTE=wingless;52754565]I pay $40/mo AUD for 15GB of data. How the fuck is Australia better on this regard?[/QUOTE]
Canada: [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/rainbow.png[/img] [I]Pay More For Less![/I] [img]https://facepunch.com/fp/ratings/rainbow.png[/img]
Seriously, they're offering $115+tax/mo for 6GB data and 300 minutes of calling.
$85+tax/mo if you just want 1GB and 300 minutes of calling. Which is still more than what I'm currently paying [I]for 6GB[/I].
Oddly the sales rep said he would throw in an extra 3GB of data if I switched to a small business account, which requires a GST number. He then said they don't care who's GST number it is and I'm not liable for any additional fees, which I'm fairly sure is in some way fraud.
...
[i]Minutes of calling??[/i]
Is it still 2003 in Canada??
[QUOTE=wingless;52754565]I pay $40/mo AUD for 15GB of data. How the fuck is Australia better on this regard?[/QUOTE]
I pay $0 and get No Data
Name a country that can do better
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[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52754638]...
[i]Minutes of calling??[/i]
Is it still 2003 in Canada??[/QUOTE]
[media]https://youtu.be/Z6HR_TNNGAc[/media]
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52754638]...
[i]Minutes of calling??[/i]
Is it still 2003 in Canada??[/QUOTE]
Honestly, the telecom companies in Canada are as backwards as it can possibly get when it comes to pricing
[QUOTE=helifreak;52754530]Jesus fuck, I can get a 16gb plan for the same amount they wanted to raise it by.[/QUOTE]
I just bought T-Mobile's Unlimited plan + phone for $100/month :v:
Better than AT&T though by golly
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52754638]...
[i]Minutes of calling??[/i]
Is it still 2003 in Canada??[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Cell_phone_plans[/url]
[url]http://www.telus.com/en/bc/mobility/plans/[/url]
Knock yourself out.
Oh so I can probably get some fun stories now that I have an IT(ish) job
You know how every company seems to have at least one multiple MB huge excel spreadsheet with more formulas than you can count and a pile of VBA macros to do something it really shouldn't
I've been tasked with writing that
After 2 weeks I can safely say VBA is the worst language I've ever used
[QUOTE=kaze4159;52754714]Oh so I can probably get some fun stories now that I have an IT(ish) job
You know how every company seems to have at least one multiple MB huge excel spreadsheet with more formulas than you can count and a pile of VBA macros to do something it really shouldn't
I've been tasked with writing that
After 2 weeks I can safely say VBA is the worst language I've ever used[/QUOTE]
With Microsoft's effort to make office more accessible to competing platforms
[url]https://www.neowin.net/news/javascript-functions-are-coming-to-microsoft-excel-among-other-features[/url]
🤨
Most of these you've been pwned emails are so pointless, because they're letting you know about breaches that happened in 2012-14
Great thanks I'll go back and tell highschool me to change all my passwords
Do you guys think SSDs will take the place of RAM in the future?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52754877]Do you guys think SSDs will take the place of RAM in the future?[/QUOTE]
Not unless you want read/write times out the ass since it's basically impossible due to various factors to access an SSD as fast as RAM. SSDs are still thousands of times slower for the CPU to access than RAM, and RAM is slower still than on-CPU caches.
Maybe in the future RAM will become cheap enough that we all have massive banks of RAM for RAMDisks that get cached to SSDs
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52754877]Do you guys think SSDs will take the place of RAM in the future?[/QUOTE]
SSDs are still several orders of magnitude slower than RAM. L1 cache is around half a nanosecond, main memory is around 100 nanoseconds, SSDs are around 150 microsecomds, HDDs are 10 millisecomds just to seek.
But will Memory and Storage become part of the same thing, whatever the technology?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52754924]But will Memory and Storage become part of the same thing, whatever the technology?[/QUOTE]
RAM is volatile. You need non-violatile memory unless you're okay with losing all of your data every time you turn off your computer.
Like I mentioned earlier, the closest you're going to get is making a RAMDisk that caches to an SSD.
Combining RAM and Storage into a single unit comes with way too many drawbacks and no real benefits. It's not gonna happen.
Not to mention I don't think x86 directly supports executing instructions from non-RAM/cache memory, but that could be worked around.
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And no you can't just make a non-volatile RAM module without making some serious sacrifices to speed (due to the laws of physics), which brings us back to the original issue of access times.
The whole reason CPU Cache, RAM, and Storage are separate in the first place is to compromise between the factors of speed, cost, and volatility.
Ah ok, one of my friends just had a theory things may go that way at some point.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;52754952]Ah ok, one of my friends just had a theory things may go that way at some point.[/QUOTE]
Your friend is thinking backwards in history.
In the very earliest computers, usually only one type of memory was used for everything. This turned out not to be practical once processors started getting faster, and thus needed to access memory faster. And we can't just have all of our memory be the fastest type we could use, as that'd be absurdly expensive; compare the price per gigabyte on RAM vs SSDs vs HDDs for example. And then you've still got volatility to deal with; non-volatile memory is magnitudes slower, but relying on a constant source of power to keep volatile memory from losing all your data is simply unacceptable.
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If anything we've just been further and further segmenting our memory.
We've added multiple levels of CPU caches since the 386, HDD caches have gotten quite large since the 80s, and with the higher speed but higher cost of SSDs, tons of people these days use both an SSD and an HDD to compromise speed and capacity needs.
So my chromebook started experiencing wifi issues today, wifi was showing up as disabled and couldn't be enabled, if you did trick it into enabling and connecting with a USB Ethernet adapter it would either freeze at some point or disable after sleep.
I just took the back off (12 M2 screws later) and reseated the wifi card and that appears to have fixed my issues. Chromebook boots up straight into wifi. The way I put it in my bag the wifi card was always hanging down in the socket and the retaining screw must have come a bit loose?
Isn't that kind of what Intel's optane bs does?
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Somewhere between an ssd and a ramdisk
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But somehow worse than just getting an ssd
[QUOTE=Del91;52754987]Isn't that kind of what Intel's optane bs does?
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Somewhere between an ssd and a ramdisk
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But somehow worse than just getting an ssd[/QUOTE]
No, it's somewhere between an SSD and an HDD. Basic idea is you use an M.2 SSD as a cache for your HDD.
Seagate actually makes HDDs with SSD caches built in which work pretty darn well.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52754999]No, it's somewhere between an SSD and an HDD. Basic idea is you use an M.2 SSD as a cache for your HDD.
Seagate actually makes HDDs with SSD caches built in which work pretty darn well.[/QUOTE]
Optane is complicated, because its both a product line, and a stand-in name for the technology 3D Xpoint.
Though it does prove even further we're segmenting memory, since Optane as a technology fits somewhere between DRAM and NAND/Flash. It has access times faster, and more IOps than NAND/Flash, can do very well at deep queue depths, but doesn't have high sequential bandwidth.
Also, for Ram there are non-volatile DIMMs available, they're extremely expensive though.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52754865]Nothing more relaxing than waking up to another You've been pwned! email.[/QUOTE]
Even Troy Hunt is getting annoyed. His Twitter is pretty funny with it.
abandon facebook then. It is a useful choice.
They are a service that let me keep account name **** *** for near 10 years, and do not mind account made with cock.li/throwaway emails (even if address insult them), but refuse to believe my name is real. After shutting my account again and refusing to recognize what information I sent, I realized there was no point.
Not really, FB is only way for me to talk to my coursemates. Also dancing group has all info on FB etc.
All my friends are on FB and it is the best way to organize events and so on.
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