LEGOs come with instructions?

Happened to come across this product via another community.
http://www.papercut.com/tour/

We often hear about companies wanting to track their printing via a central console and report usage, etc. This appears to have a free version for SMBs and home users that will do just that. Haven't tried it yet but it looks quite snazzy. Anyone have experience or thoughts on this?

@Bob-Beatty Do you have the Microsoft adapter? Although you can plug one in via USB, if it's a cordless controller, it connects via a wireless signal. The adapter is like $20 on Amazon. Let me see if I can get a link.

@scottalanmiller said:

Boy a year goes by quickly. This still feels very new. But, when I think about it, this happened mid-way through my time at the hedge fund and I started there in early October, 2013! Can't believe that it is April, 2015 already.

Yeah, this is pretty nuts that so much time has passed already...

I agree with @scottalanmiller . You are trying to get a feel for the person's goals, desires, ambitions, etc. The interview is about proving the person who has the skills listed on their resume. One reason I do very well on interviews is because people can see I'm motivated and driven. My resume may have a lot of good technical skills, but it doesn't tell what kind of person I am. That's what the interview is for. I'd say this is a great opportunity for you. Try to mostly remove the technical aspect from it and just try and get a feel if the person's personality would match your current environment.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@IRJ said:

@bill-kindle Are you using NUMA?

I haven't gotten that level of nerd yet. For a minute I thought you meant numa numa guy.

Glad I wasn't the only one...
Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller I believe Nic passed 400 recently (if I remember correctly).

Am I the only one who finds @scottalanmiller constantly talking to himself kind of weird?

To be perfectly honest, I don't see him as having the skills that would make an employer jump through the legal hoops to hire him from India. Just my 2¢.

Having an issue with a client's machine. Dell Precision T3500. Has 12GB of RAM (6x2GB), an Intel Xeon W3505 2.53GHz and an nVidia Quadro 2000 GPU with 1GB. Runs Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64. The issue we are having is that when the user is using AutoCAD 2014 and doing 3D work, be that rendering or modeling, they experience lags or have their cursor drag. Now the initial thought was the GPU. That card, by nVidia's website, is designed specifically for CAD work. I for several days ran logs against the card while the user worked. Used GPU-Z and logged to the IT share. Never even capped 300MB of usage and I don't believe the GPU load ever even hit 50%. Therefore, I can rule out performance issues with the GPU. What this leaves me is wondering where the hangup is. 12GB of RAM pretty much rules out a memory issue unless there is a leak somewhere. I believe the processor is only a dual-core so that could be it but I haven't been able to log that.

My other thought is that something is beginning to fail on the hardware side. That would seem weird as it's really only with the 3D portion of AutoCAD that this occurs.

What I've tried:

• Updated the graphics card drivers to the absolute latest version from nVidia's website
• Lowered the color bit from 32 to 16. I've seen this fix delay issues and the human eye can only see 16-bit anyways so there is no visual quality difference.
• Obviously I logged but that showed no issues.
• There was a major update to AutoCAD that I installed.
• Ran a repair and reset on AutoCAD.

The user continues to let us know that the issue keeps persisting.

What I haven't tried:

• Dell support recommended flashing the BIOS. I think it's already up-to-date because I think I did this before but I will confirm.
• A complete rip and re-install of AutoCAD. Trying to avoid that if at all possible.
• Replace the GPU. Although I don't think this is the issue, I haven't tried a different one.
• Generating a new profile for the user. The user was just brought on so this shouldn't be an issue but I have not tried a profile rebuild.

Dell Support has asked us to run their Dell Diagnostics. As the machine was in use, I was not able to do that so we are going to kick it off tonight and work on it in the morning. I personally have never been impressed or had much faith in any manufacturer's onboard diagnostics (with the exception of a few HP machines) so we'll see if that turns anything up. If we determine nothing hardware wise is wrong, which I am starting to think it may just be AutoCAD, then I'll do a rip and reinstall of CAD.

In the meantime, any other thoughts would be awesome!

@IRJ said:

Hello everyone

Hey Joel! How goes things? Welcome!

@scottalanmiller said:

Trust me, if your brakes are stopping you, you're not seeing the conditions we worry about and are driving in situations we consider tame. You can't get to your brakes at driving speed in a FWD without traction issues from the engine unless you are clutching it out first. We are talking about serious snow and ice here. If the issue is a dusting, then the issue is people not knowing how to drive. What is "six months of the year" driving in NY is unheard of, even for Toronto.

This is so true it hurts...

@Lakshmana said:

I am being invited for the job profile of Desktop Support at Other company.How the questions will be to be about my present job.How I have to express myself at Interview?Can anyone suggest me the things.

Do not speak negative opinions about your employer. Speak facts. Let them draw their own conclusions. If they're smart, they'll realize you're in a bad situation. However, if you bad mouth your current employer, it makes you look bad, not your employer.

As far as questions, do you have a job description you can post?

Synology and ReadyNAS are the two most recommended ones I see.

@psx_defector

In regards to the discussion about FWD vs RWD, I thought this video was applicable...
https://weather.com/storms/winter/video/worst-driver-ever

Another idea was to list the problem time (March 2014-January 2015) as "Travel and Personal Development", which would hopefully get it past the screeners and then I can explain on the interview...

Go straight to 5.5 and just reconnect the VMware back into ESXi. Won't be a problem.

@RoguePacket Compared to me most pale in comparison but yes, she's quite hyper.

@travisdh1 said in Ubuntu switching back to GNOME:

Great news to me! From Phoronix

Canonical has announced via Mark Shuttleworth they are ending their development of the Unity 8 desktop environment and will be switching back to GNOME desktop by Ubuntu 18.04.

WOOHOO! I stopped using Ubuntu right around when they made the initial switch from GNOME to Unity because Unity was just horrible. GNOME FTW!