Posts made by kamidon

Wow, bizarre for sure.

@360col Man I love Zendesk.
I'll admit though to hating it in the beginning.
I was so used to Spiceworks and all the # commands, switching over to different # commands drove me nuts!

But yeah, now I'd never go back.

My current org uses ServiceNow, which has the worst UI I have ever seen. There's just too many damned options, so confusing. Though I believe it's customizable, but I'm not sure.
No longer am I running the show, which is a huge relief. Four years of stress added triple that to my age lol.
(New state, new job, yay!)

@black3dynamite said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

I had a HP DC5850 that replaced my dx5150 which I had used for years. The DC5850 made it nine years, I think, as my main desktop. That had the AMD Phenom-II processor, 6GB of RAM, but the key was that it had an early SSD and was so fast that the old CPU didn't matter. Now 6GB of RAM would kill me, but 8GB will essentially work.

AMD Phenom was my favorite.

Oh but that Sempron though!

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@PhlipElder said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Dashrender said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

but it was just over 5 years old and died last year.

That's pretty young for a laptop. My $1100 HP Folio 13 is still going strong from 2012.

I have a Tecra Z50-A series that's still going strong. A high performance Intel SSD and the maximum amount of RAM gives it a good go along with an Asus HD USB3 monitor makes it a solid work kit.

We've hit that era where as long as you have enough RAM and an SSD, the CPU is often not a factor

Hah, that's so true

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kamidon said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Celebrating in my head for finishing two gui scripts.

Um, you need to learn to celebrate outside of your head, lol.

Haha, well I was at my desk. I did let out a little, "Yes!"

Another option is Freshdesk, I have an IT buddy who kept trying to get us to switch over to that one, but eh...While it looks great, it seems about the same or worse than Zendesk GUI-wise.

I've used Spiceworks and then Zendesk.

I LOVE Zendesk.
It's simple, well priced, and very fast!
Survey system, reporting, customization available, etc etc

Celebrating in my head for finishing two gui scripts.
One to create AppPools and the other GUI that will create websites. (boss wanted them separate.)
I'm getting pretty decent with scripting, I still suck...but...they work!

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

The main processor families for general computing around still today include: Power, Sparc, MIPS, AMD64, ARM, RISC-V.

Recently killed off families included Alpha, PA-RISC, Itanium, IA32.

AMD and Intel both primarily make AMD64 chips. Intel has no chip design of its own today.

What about Xeon? And speaking of which, fuck those damn things are expensive.

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller OH DUH....IBM right???

Yup. IBM makes the majority of Power processors and all of the high performance ones. Power is open source, so others can make it. Motorola made a low end Power proc family called PowerPC that Apple used to buy. Lots of chip makes use Power designs to make small 64bit chips these days. You find them in all kinds of appliances. But they are not nearly as popular as ARM for that.

Would Snapdragon count as ARM?

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

Hmmm, never heard of Power.

Power is the only remaining processor made by or available for IBM customers. IBM sold everything that used Intel or AMD to Lenovo so that they could focus 100% on their Power products. Power is what powers mainfraimes, the majority of mini-computers, anything AIX, and many others.

Power also does other things and is very common in RAID controllers and other small items. But not made by IBM in those cases.

Off-topic, but I remember reading an article a few years back that IBM switched all their employees over to Apple machines. Lol...random.

@scottalanmiller OH DUH....IBM right???

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

And in those special cases, Power tends to be the answer rather than Intel.

What do you mean by that?

Cases where Intel tends to really stand out above its key competitors like AMD and ARM for servers, it tends to be crushed by Power. Single threaded performance has always been Power's key strong point. No one comes close to it. For huge thread performance, ARM tends to be best (RISK-V is going to come after it, though.) AMD, Intel and Sparc are all "middle ground, blended performance" choices.

Hmmm, never heard of Power.
I mean other than Power PC, which I presume is way past dead.

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

But hey, they just came out with Hyperthreading in what, 2017? Yay!
SMT I believe is their version.

HT is an industry term, but an implementation. So it is HT with AMD, too. Same as with IBM, Oracle, and others.

HT can be good, or bad. It's only good if your processor has a deep pipeline.

Well you mentioned threads earlier, aren't threads insignificant without HT?

No, not at all. HT is a way to get more "visible threads" out of fewer "real threads". HT threads are weaker (sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot) than true threads. We often disable them because they can cause performance problems.

Threading on its own is super important for performance. HT is one of many methods to attempt to increase performance for certain workloads for a given processor design. True threading is actually more useful without HT, but no one makes HT without also doing threading. But they used to.

Ohhhh wow, interesting

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

And in those special cases, Power tends to be the answer rather than Intel.

What do you mean by that?

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

But hey, they just came out with Hyperthreading in what, 2017? Yay!
SMT I believe is their version.

HT is an industry term, but an implementation. So it is HT with AMD, too. Same as with IBM, Oracle, and others.

HT can be good, or bad. It's only good if your processor has a deep pipeline.

Well you mentioned threads earlier, aren't threads insignificant without HT?

@Dashrender said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

No, I completely disagree, Intel's onboard graphics can run most modern games.

It CAN run them, but not in the ballpark of an AMD or Nvidia. I have it and it breaks everything. So buggy and slow.

Yeah.........On a 2012 machine......I'm not surprised. There has been significant improvements in Intels onboard graphics. I've tested it on a Surface Pro 5 (Well the spiritual five when they skipped adding a number. Technically SP5 but.......not or something? Microsoft is so weird sometimes...)

No, that's a separate discussion. I have an Intel i7 Sixth Gen machine and the Intel graphics on that are so bad, but I can't disable them. Totally buggy and cause endless problems. It's bad enough that it makes the CPU itself problematic because it's unstable because of the software GPU that is forced on you.

I'm not surprised again.
Though what did Radeon have at that time period...If you take your exact machine and compare that to an equally specced AMD machine, the intel will perform better graphically, guaranteed.

wow - just not a fan of ATI I take it?

I loved ATI over nVidea back when I used to build Gaming PCs in the early 2000's.

OH ATI was KING!!!! But not any longer.
But no, I like both companies, actually, I like AMD much more. I want them to succeed over Intel.
I've been waiting patiently, but still don't see it. But hey, they just came out with Hyperthreading in what, 2017? Yay!
SMT I believe is their version.
Someday, I hope to see AMD dominate servers all over.

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

No, I completely disagree, Intel's onboard graphics can run most modern games.

It CAN run them, but not in the ballpark of an AMD or Nvidia. I have it and it breaks everything. So buggy and slow.

Yeah.........On a 2012 machine......I'm not surprised. There has been significant improvements in Intels onboard graphics. I've tested it on a Surface Pro 5 (Well the spiritual five when they skipped adding a number. Technically SP5 but.......not or something? Microsoft is so weird sometimes...)

No, that's a separate discussion. I have an Intel i7 Sixth Gen machine and the Intel graphics on that are so bad, but I can't disable them. Totally buggy and cause endless problems. It's bad enough that it makes the CPU itself problematic because it's unstable because of the software GPU that is forced on you.

I'm not surprised again.
Though what did Radeon have at that time period...If you take your exact machine and compare that to an equally specced AMD machine, the intel will perform better graphically, guaranteed.

Intel CPUs are also significantly better for mobile devices and generate less heat.
Ugh I'm starting to sound like a fan boy, I'm certainly not. I don't care which I use, but I do care which to buy depending on purpose.

@scottalanmiller said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

In what market though? Surely not the consumer market. And most servers I've at least seen are always Intel. Perhaps the east coast is different?

The ENTIRE market.

I'm very happy to see AMD catching up. https://marketrealist.com/2019/05/amd-is-set-to-gain-cpu-unit-market-share-from-intel-in-2019/
They finally will a vastly significant part of the market share within two years.