LRC computers upgrade

The_B_Man

just in case anyone is interested, they put Windows XP Pro on computers in LRC. oh and they cleaned them aswell. no hadware upgrades though. still cream Dell PCs. i was hopin they'd put them new black ones all over the LRC. ah well.

Stephen

Those PC's were slow enough with just windows 2000 on them (mostly due to the ****loads of useless software they had running at startup. hope they removed all that crap)

The_B_Man

yeah they're actually faster i think. only antivirus and novell things at startup (4 icons) and 32mb G: drive. and the clock is right!!! :rolleyes:

elvis2002

Well it would be very hard to make them longer than 10 minutes for start up and login. Xp machines though on old machines like that is going to slow anyways. All those pc's should be but in a bin.

How do you know about 32 meg g drives ( oh the joy of having a big file :mad: )? I thought last years logins dont work anymore? Pity they dont have some system where you could pay for a huge g drive, like 10 gigs for 50 euro a year or something, that would be more useful for the likes of leechers like me. :cool:

Stephen

I don't think they want to encourage leechers.

Still, 32mb is better than the 4 or so mb I had last year.

elvis2002

leechers forever, thats why lab 303 and 305 exist!

The_Goose

elvis2002 wrote:

I thought last years logins dont work anymore?

He got joe to get the techies to give him one cause of the repeats!

pyure

last year my g: drive was 4.some gigs for most of the year i had a bunch of entire live nirvana shows and videos saved on it.
then a few weeks before the exams they cut it down to 35 i think.

Redrocket

xp pro with service pack 2 is it?
hopefully they cut down on the ****e and put a recent version of java on the machines.
if you need a login talk to your head of department

The_B_Man

service pack 1. at the moment G: is definately 32mb. not sure if its just for us cool summer ppl or if it'll stay that way for the year! ps no drive!

Stephen

Have they set everything on the C drive besides your own documents and settings folder to be read only again?

Redrocket

i think you're better off waiting and checking yourself than expecting a correct answer to that

Stephen

probably, yes

*strokes usb laptop drive*

elvis2002

*strokes his 2 usb laptop drives* pr0n takes up alot of space.....

The_B_Man

Stephen wrote:

Have they set everything on the C drive besides your own documents and settings folder to be read only again?

yep! same as last year except no d drive!

edit: There is a Drive but its the zip drive.

Stephen

i wonder if they still map about 20 network drives that nobody uses.

the_syco

Stephen wrote:

i wonder if they still map about 20 network drives that nobody uses.

2 years ago you were able to "access" the drives sometimes; great for moving files around, from 305, to the media labs. They patched that, tho.

mada999

I just used my linux account last yr to store my files. Also my linux acc was still active from 2nd year haha. I just downloaded whatever I wanted onto the desktop and then copied it to my linux acc. Good old cnoc csm accounts - sweet . . .

Redrocket

the drives wouldnd be mapped if they were useless,
most of the drives are there for a reason

Ruaidhri

oh,come on!who doesnt have use for 16 bit win 3.11 applications,random novell crap and the other useful applications on those drives?

seanos

16-bit is overrated, everyone knows all the good applications are 8-bit

Stephen

It wouldn't be that hard to put user accounts into groups and only map the drives that are required by each group when they log on. Having heaps of network drives generates extra unneccessary traffic, as windows will periodically poll them (fairly frequently too as far as I know), and we all know how slow the college network is anyway.