Vista Boot Time = Unpaid Time

Firms are refusing to pay employees for the extra time spent waiting for Dimdows Vista to boot.

<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/19/firms-charge-employees-vista>

 

The Inquirer?

Cheers,

Cliff

 

"TIGHT ARSED employers are refusing to pay employees for the 20 or so minutes it
takes for their computers to boot-up or shut down."

20 minutes, what are they running it on - a 5 year old PC? And why would they
hang around waiting for it to shutdown? Smells like a load of bollocks... just
the thing to give Larry a boner.

 

In my experience the article is completely accurate. Now where is that
microsoft shill poster that posts in all the Vista threads?

J&H.

 

Yup, just like the win98 boxen that got upgraded to xp but no ram was
added.
It may be Vista Capable, just like win 95 was with 4 or was it 8 megs of
ram from 3.11. Anyways, capable means you must be patient, not runs
smoothly. We all know this. Been there done that, I never even started
moving, you can move on.

 

Further confirmation here
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/windows_vista_overtime/>.

 

Actually when you have idiot network admins with roaming profiles on
slow storage with slow lan thats not uncommon.

Nothing to do with the OS, everything to do with idiots running the place.

 

Riiigt! Nothing at all to do with idiot users saving gigabytes worth of
music in their profiles then?

Cheers,

Cliff

 

I never logoff unless I have to.

There is no real alternative. People want to login to any machine they
walk up to and they want all their files to be available anywhere, not
to mention being backed up.

Then you get the road warrior who is incensed because he can't access
the corporate LAN drives on the road. Duh!

Cheers,

Cliff

Cheers,

Cliff

 

A better and more realistic description of the issue is here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/windows_vista_overtime/

It's not Vista per se, it is idiot employers who use logon/logoff times
as part of their timeclock system for staff.

It still doesn't seem believable though - there is no way Vista takes 15
minutes to boot to the logon screen, and no way this is affected by
roaming profiles as they don't load until after the logon has been
processed by the DC (and thus transferred to the timeclock system).

 

That's fine if you set the policy.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

Dimwit. The profile keeps all the preferences and stuff like that. The
home directory doesn't contain the preferences, the profile does, local
or roaming. Profiles should be small, and not contain bulk storage. The
home directory should also be small and not contain bulk storage.

Dimwit. Three things that should never be on a local (Windows) machine -
the profile, the home directory and any corporate files. It's OK for
them to store 'personal data', (eg photos of their kids), within reason,
on their desktops or laptops. They should not expect it to be backed up.

The exceptions are the road warriors who can expect to have to sync up
every time they return to base. They are justified in having *some* data
on their machines.

Dimwit. You've obviously never tried either of these.

Dimwit.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

Non work related files should be removed if the staff complain about
slowness to log in. If they do it again they should be refered to HR for
a meeting about their misuse of work assets.

 

Just cross posting more of your crap from Cola eh ..
We must be about due for the awe inspiring windows needs a floppy drive
rehash lol.

Biggles

 

No wonder Dimdows is so complicated and unwieldy to manage. On Unix/Linux systems _all_ user data goes in the user directory. Nice and simple. System directories contain only system stuff.

 

NFS is insecure.

 

I guess it was worth a try ;-)

 

Sometimes it's good for lulz lol.

 

You don't have to convince me - I'm a card-carrying pedant.

 

Don't you mean Muphry's law?