Last time I checked this was IT’s department.

I dropped my girlfriend off this morning at the airport because she’s being sent down to Cape Town for some sort of emergency in her company. Good for her. I’ve taken the opportunity to do what I’ve been asking IT to do for the last month now. We’ve had two machines down on the farm. One because of some network card issue, and another because of some Java or .Net issue. Not a clue actually. My solution: FORMAT THE BASTARDS!

It can’t be that hard? I’ve been doing this for many years now and to format a machine and start from scratch will always give you the best results and best performance in terms of raw processing power from a machine. I just can’t believe that I have to email, and email, and email, and still nothing get’s done. Our IT guy has had a look at the one machine, tried to install a new driver, shrugged his shoulders and left it. That’s 8 cores down. And the other machine that just needs a wipe, another 8 cores right there. Deadline reports that as roughly 48GHz that I don’t have access to. That’s a lot of power right there. With those two machines up and running I could have my renders done 25% faster. That’s a lot!

I lost my shit a while back already about this IT guy not doing anything. Even CC’d the boss and he told them that they’d better pull up their socks. Yet here I am, at six AM, doing his job.

If I ever run my own company, I won’t let things like this slide.