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Marc Clifton wrote: one of the better machines that the developers have -- an i5, 8GB, 5400 RPM drive
Step 1:
Write a quick application to monitor compilation times. Using your salary show management how much time/money is wasted each month/quarter waiting for the compilation to complete.
Step 2:
Build a list of inexpensive SSD drives with a comparative cost/time ratio with your previous compilation measurements.
Step 3:
Enjoy a higher quality of work-life as you are writing more code and not standing at the coffee machine sipping on the liquid french vanilla creamer.
Best Wishes,
David Delaune
P.S.
You should probably report how you managed to circumvent the corporate network restrictions.
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I tried that approach. The answer was "the company's policy on a developer machine configuration is fixed." Forest. Trees.
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I would buy my own SSD, and upgrade the machine. Add 8GB of memory to it, if it takes it.
And consider it a GIFT to the company for my Peace of Mind.
And I would say NOTHING.
I am sure you are there after hours, like I was.
I remember buying my own DayTrader Video Adapter for Windows 95 to get dual monitors for my work PC.
I was able to scavenge an unused monitor. It was worth it.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I also now have access to GMail and other sites that are blocked, no, not by the network routers, but by client-side software that monitors the URL's
Idiots!
Sorry, couldn't think of a more fitting response to that.
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I wonder how you got that to work.
I like to have my work on a separate drive from the system. On my old laptop, I created a partition -- and received a very slight slap on the wrist. On my new laptop I decided to create a virtual hard drive -- and it worked. But, I noticed things slowing down as I copied my files to it from my old laptop... And finally realized that the anti-virus must have been rescanning the vhd file every time a change was made.
I removed the vhd and I'm simply using subst now. Alas.
So, if your VM is likewise stored in a file on your disk, why it's it not similarly impacted? Or is it not local?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: So, if your VM is likewise stored in a file on your disk, why it's it not similarly impacted?
Good question. I'm not sure. However, the VM file is actually stored on the SSD, not the desktop box.
More to the point though is why, with all the security layers they have, they don't detect / prevent a USB mass storage device from being attached. Huge security hole, IMO.
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Oh yeah, USB, my current place locked that down recently. Now I have to email myself files I want review at home.
At my last place, a dialog would pop up stating the policy and providing an "I agree" button -- but, ya know, just click the X in the corner.
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I think there are a lot of us in the same crappy environment, I have to zip and password protect any files I email back to the office, all attachments get nailed otherwise.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The man who invented Velcro has died. RIP.
(I thought he’d stick around longer.)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: The man who invented Velcro has died.
I'd like to be torn apart over this but I'm stuck.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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did they stick him in the ground?
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Yeah, and that other inventor too, has passeg way. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Why don't you just zip it up? Button a happier note, hook and eye blame for these pun responses I make?
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It's a pity they felt the need to tear him off a strip. I was always hooked on his invention.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Heard it was a catchy funeral?
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He died in one of those places that still believe in an eye for a hook.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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and somehow, the residue from having just been here will remain...
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After playing around with Docker I started wondering if something exists that provides similar functionality for Windows. Say I have a new laptop that I got from HP (I do), I want to be able to create a VHD that I could somehow launch that would then virtually store any changes to my Windows installation, files, registry, etc as another layer on top of what is running on my laptop. I would then be able for example install development software like Visual Studio. Even better I could have two of these VHDs with different versions of Visual Studio, maybe one is a Preview I want to play with. When I'm doing with it, I just delete the VHD and my system is back to the way it came from the factory. I seem to remember 20 years ago when I worked in IT in college we had some software we used for lab computers that kinda worked like this, Deepfreeze maybe? Thanks for any ideas if ya'll know of something like this.
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what's wrong with virtual machines?
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Since my laptop is a little constrained in terms of RAM and CPU I was essentially hoping for something similar to a virtual machine or docker but that is based on the System OS running on my laptop, rather than having to run 2 separate OS's if that makes sense.
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Get a new machine, if it's so old a VM will take it down it's time to upgrade your dev box. Seriously, virtualization is supported right down to CPUs now. And testing the latest and greatest software will all but force that anyway. I'd never use a VM for game development or anything graphic intensive, ever. But for most other things they work pretty well.
Also, it's been my experience that VMWare runs faster than VirtualBox. I don't have much experience with Hyper-V since the two aforementioned tend to handle my needs.
Jeremy Falcon
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Sounds like he just needs a new computer that's not 10 years old.
Jeremy Falcon
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How about this[^]?
Apologies if you've tried & discounted it - I have downloaded & installed it on Win 10, but not really used it in anger yet.
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Yeah, Docker for Windows is really great and what gave me the idea. I'm just looking for something similar but that is based on my actual System OS instead of a separate docker image, so I'm only running one OS instead of the two normally necessary with Docker. I might be misunderstanding how Docker actually works but usually the docker image you create is based on a different image you download, for example Windows 10, Windows Server, or Windows Nano, etc whereas I want to use the Windows OS already installed on my laptop as the base image if that make sense.
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