Or explain to other CS graduates that no one is standing in a cubicle farm to turn on their computer like they do at a university lab. You're be surprised by how little CS graduates know about PCs.
Also, Security depends on your ability to manage frustration, since it's often a losing battle.
The opposite end of the spectrum is boredom (i.e., watching paint dry). From my experience in IT support roles, the best jobs are the most boring jobs that no one else wants to do. When I did a PC refresh project for a local hospital, I relocated my desk into a storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years and spent six weeks in between tickets to sort, toss or recycle old IT equipment to reclaim 600-sqf of useable space. Boring as heck but someone had to do it.
My friend and I made the pilgrimage from Silicon Valley to MacWorld Expo in 2007 to view the first-gen iPhone under a glass dome. That was probably the last great MacWorld Expo before Apple ditched it and it slid into obscurity. Ironically, it would be seven years before my friend and I could afford an iPhone.
A year later I would be working the Google IT help desk. One of the most popular requests that routinely denied was an iPhone for employee use. IT didn't think the iPhone was secure enough to be on the network. At a Friday beer bust, a VP stood up to announce that everyone would get iPhones for work. The help desk got slammed with 700+ tickets requesting iPhones — and we immediately closed out every ticket under existing policy. IT took a few months to work out a policy that attached so many strings to the iPhone that few people got them at first.
It's over. Mr. Trump is someone else's POTUS. But not mine.
Your comment on my signature block is off-topic for this discussion. But you already know that.
Sorry to inform you, if you're a citizen of the US, then he's gong to be your president unless something extraordinary happens. Period, full stop, the end. You might not have voted for him, you might hate his guts and politics and wish him ill, and until he takes to oath of office he ISN'T your president -- but once he does, he is.
I'm giving Mr. Trump the same level of respect that the Republicans gave President Obama for eight years.
Then again, if you really don't want him to be your president, you can always renounce your U.S. citizenship and pick exactly who you'd like.
I'm still waiting for Rush Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica after ObamaCare became law.
And by the way, I'm curious: are you on either coast? I'm in flyover country.
I'm a moderate conservative in California. Yes, I voted for Hillary. At least she was the real deal. I still don't under how the Republicans nominated someone who was neither a conservative nor a Republican, and, until a few short years ago, was a Clinton Democrat.
Most UC campuses have decentralized, highly inefficient IT, some supporting administrative staff, some supporting faculty, and some supporting research.
Stanford University has a central IT department to set the university-wide standard, but each school has a dedicated IT team. I did four or five interviews at different schools a few years ago. A very different experience than interviewing at a Fortune 500 company.
And where will all the engineers and researchers come from if there aren't people going into higher education?
Those are the workers who aren't smart enough to own the corporate ladder. They're happy to climb the corporate ladder, pay the highest tax rates and make someone else rich.
Working in IT, I'm not too thrilled by this, but that one statement shows a complete lack of thought.
That's nothing. I worked for a Fortune 500 company that demanded that the help desk providers provide twice the performance for half the cost. When a provider couldn't deliver, they gave the contract to a different provider. Each time the help desk staff got smaller and smaller. When I checked several years ago, they still haven't achieved twice the performance for half the cost after turning over providers three or four times.
A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help. Feinstein's office sent back a letter... and offered the worker no assistance.
If you send a letter to the Washington, D.C., office, you will get back a form letter. If you send a letter to the local or state office, you will get personal response (most of the time). If you want to be effective in politics, it starts at the grassroots.
Representative Zoe Lofgren (from a district in Silicon Valley) is arguing that the university "is training software engineers at the same time they're outsourcing their own software engineers. What message are they sending their own students?"
Same message as the law schools: "We're happy to take your money. If you can't find a job after you graduate, tough shit. You should have thought carefully about your major's future potential before taking on $100K in student loans."
I would imagine assemblers are written in C++ as well. Why not?
I'm working my way through an old book to create a Pascal compiler in C. I went with the C edition since it was easier to translate the MS-DOS era code into a modern variant of C than the C++ edition. I'm also learning C to write Python C extensions. Once I'm done with the book, I'll get back to my BASIC compiler in Python.
Well, that shouldn't have happened under normal conditions.
I was a professional videogame tester at the time.
You probably bought a card way out the league of your PC.
Back then I was probably upgrading my video cards every year. After I rebuilt my gaming PC for Windows Vista in 2007, I upgraded my video cards every three years.
I had a computer instructor in the early 1990's who said that 4GB on a 32-bit processor was enough RAM for anyone to use. For the most part, he was correct. I had a 4GB system for nine years before I upgraded to a new motherboard with 8GB. The only time I ever use more than 4GB is when I'm playing a videogame or encoding video.
you seem to be ASSuming that the OP is in fact using a spinning disk.
Based on the initial description and my experience as a help desk technician, a fragged hard drive was a likely cause. If the OP has an SSD, my advice would be irrelevant.
Also, defrag on non-SSDs has been an automatically scheduled weekly task since Win7.
As I pointed out to someone else, that may be true for the Home version. Most Fortune 500 companies I've worked at disable automatic defragging in the Enterprise version, as it would interfere with something else during the maintenance window or slow the down a program running overnight. I still do manual disk frags at home because my Windows computers are not on 24/7.
A SSD might look like a HDD to the OS and perform the same operation but under the hood the technology is completely different.
When I cloned my HDD to SSD, Windows changed a registry setting to mark the SSD as a USB drive. Never mind that I booted the SSD from SATA after replacing the HDD. It prevented the Windows 10 Anniversary update from installing.
If so, that's not by default. Someone decided to manually push out that policy. Or worse, have a policy of shutting down systems at night and preventing any maintenance overnight at all.
That seems to be the default policy for the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at. The rational for disabling automatic defragging is that it interferes with other stuff going during the maintenance window or programs being run overnight. This might be a non-issue now that newer PCs have SSDs instead of HDDs. My two-year-old work laptop with an SSD card has never ever ran defragger.
Maybe the Home version. I've done quite a few defrags on Windows 7 systems in the corporate environment. Automatic defrag is typically disabled by group policy.
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Or explain to other CS graduates that no one is standing in a cubicle farm to turn on their computer like they do at a university lab. You're be surprised by how little CS graduates know about PCs.
Don't want to discuss it, don't post it.
You don't like it, don't comment on it.
Proof that the Republicans said Obama was not president of the USA or GTFO.
The right-wing echo chamber for the last eight years.
You're working on joining them by lying about who is your president.
No, I'm joining the resistance against The Friends of Putin Club.
Also, Security depends on your ability to manage frustration, since it's often a losing battle.
The opposite end of the spectrum is boredom (i.e., watching paint dry). From my experience in IT support roles, the best jobs are the most boring jobs that no one else wants to do. When I did a PC refresh project for a local hospital, I relocated my desk into a storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years and spent six weeks in between tickets to sort, toss or recycle old IT equipment to reclaim 600-sqf of useable space. Boring as heck but someone had to do it.
My friend and I made the pilgrimage from Silicon Valley to MacWorld Expo in 2007 to view the first-gen iPhone under a glass dome. That was probably the last great MacWorld Expo before Apple ditched it and it slid into obscurity. Ironically, it would be seven years before my friend and I could afford an iPhone.
A year later I would be working the Google IT help desk. One of the most popular requests that routinely denied was an iPhone for employee use. IT didn't think the iPhone was secure enough to be on the network. At a Friday beer bust, a VP stood up to announce that everyone would get iPhones for work. The help desk got slammed with 700+ tickets requesting iPhones — and we immediately closed out every ticket under existing policy. IT took a few months to work out a policy that attached so many strings to the iPhone that few people got them at first.
It's over. Mr. Trump is someone else's POTUS. But not mine.
Your comment on my signature block is off-topic for this discussion. But you already know that.
Sorry to inform you, if you're a citizen of the US, then he's gong to be your president unless something extraordinary happens. Period, full stop, the end. You might not have voted for him, you might hate his guts and politics and wish him ill, and until he takes to oath of office he ISN'T your president -- but once he does, he is.
I'm giving Mr. Trump the same level of respect that the Republicans gave President Obama for eight years.
Then again, if you really don't want him to be your president, you can always renounce your U.S. citizenship and pick exactly who you'd like.
I'm still waiting for Rush Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica after ObamaCare became law.
http://www.politicususa.com/2010/03/22/limbaugh-costa-rica.html
And by the way, I'm curious: are you on either coast? I'm in flyover country.
I'm a moderate conservative in California. Yes, I voted for Hillary. At least she was the real deal. I still don't under how the Republicans nominated someone who was neither a conservative nor a Republican, and, until a few short years ago, was a Clinton Democrat.
Most UC campuses have decentralized, highly inefficient IT, some supporting administrative staff, some supporting faculty, and some supporting research.
Stanford University has a central IT department to set the university-wide standard, but each school has a dedicated IT team. I did four or five interviews at different schools a few years ago. A very different experience than interviewing at a Fortune 500 company.
And where will all the engineers and researchers come from if there aren't people going into higher education?
Those are the workers who aren't smart enough to own the corporate ladder. They're happy to climb the corporate ladder, pay the highest tax rates and make someone else rich.
Us Alt-Right nut faces don't generally insult the other side of the debate.
Who else would use the word "libtard" in political comments?
Working in IT, I'm not too thrilled by this, but that one statement shows a complete lack of thought.
That's nothing. I worked for a Fortune 500 company that demanded that the help desk providers provide twice the performance for half the cost. When a provider couldn't deliver, they gave the contract to a different provider. Each time the help desk staff got smaller and smaller. When I checked several years ago, they still haven't achieved twice the performance for half the cost after turning over providers three or four times.
A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help. Feinstein's office sent back a letter ... and offered the worker no assistance.
If you send a letter to the Washington, D.C., office, you will get back a form letter. If you send a letter to the local or state office, you will get personal response (most of the time). If you want to be effective in politics, it starts at the grassroots.
Representative Zoe Lofgren (from a district in Silicon Valley) is arguing that the university "is training software engineers at the same time they're outsourcing their own software engineers. What message are they sending their own students?"
Same message as the law schools: "We're happy to take your money. If you can't find a job after you graduate, tough shit. You should have thought carefully about your major's future potential before taking on $100K in student loans."
There's F# if you want to take your mojo up to 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_(programming_language)
I would imagine assemblers are written in C++ as well. Why not?
I'm working my way through an old book to create a Pascal compiler in C. I went with the C edition since it was easier to translate the MS-DOS era code into a modern variant of C than the C++ edition. I'm also learning C to write Python C extensions. Once I'm done with the book, I'll get back to my BASIC compiler in Python.
You could always stop watching porn and do something better with your computing time.
Well, that shouldn't have happened under normal conditions.
I was a professional videogame tester at the time.
You probably bought a card way out the league of your PC.
Back then I was probably upgrading my video cards every year. After I rebuilt my gaming PC for Windows Vista in 2007, I upgraded my video cards every three years.
I had a computer instructor in the early 1990's who said that 4GB on a 32-bit processor was enough RAM for anyone to use. For the most part, he was correct. I had a 4GB system for nine years before I upgraded to a new motherboard with 8GB. The only time I ever use more than 4GB is when I'm playing a videogame or encoding video.
The early 2000's was the last time had a Nvidia Geforce video card (256MB) with more RAM than my PC (192MB).
Your "non-story" is on the front page again, as a new story for today and the link to yesterday's story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/chicago-racially-charged-attack-video.html
you seem to be ASSuming that the OP is in fact using a spinning disk.
Based on the initial description and my experience as a help desk technician, a fragged hard drive was a likely cause. If the OP has an SSD, my advice would be irrelevant.
Also, defrag on non-SSDs has been an automatically scheduled weekly task since Win7.
As I pointed out to someone else, that may be true for the Home version. Most Fortune 500 companies I've worked at disable automatic defragging in the Enterprise version, as it would interfere with something else during the maintenance window or slow the down a program running overnight. I still do manual disk frags at home because my Windows computers are not on 24/7.
A SSD might look like a HDD to the OS and perform the same operation but under the hood the technology is completely different.
When I cloned my HDD to SSD, Windows changed a registry setting to mark the SSD as a USB drive. Never mind that I booted the SSD from SATA after replacing the HDD. It prevented the Windows 10 Anniversary update from installing.
If so, that's not by default. Someone decided to manually push out that policy. Or worse, have a policy of shutting down systems at night and preventing any maintenance overnight at all.
That seems to be the default policy for the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at. The rational for disabling automatic defragging is that it interferes with other stuff going during the maintenance window or programs being run overnight. This might be a non-issue now that newer PCs have SSDs instead of HDDs. My two-year-old work laptop with an SSD card has never ever ran defragger.
Not on Windows Vista and up.
Maybe the Home version. I've done quite a few defrags on Windows 7 systems in the corporate environment. Automatic defrag is typically disabled by group policy.
That's an automated service on Windows 10.
I'll have to double check that. I use Auslogic Defragger to defrag my Windows 10 systems.
Try replacing with an SSD.
When people complain about Windows being sluggish, it's usually because they haven't defragged their hard drives.
you don't just go about defragging an SSD YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Hard drive != SSD
Windows 10 might actually be able to run on it with out feeling sluggish.
Try defragging the hard disk.