"Go ahead and take this "I deserve it" attitude to your supervisor though."

He's on the CEO track, let him go for it. Soon he will be doing little or nothing for exorbitant pay checks and he'll be able to make decisions that completely screw the company which will subsequently result in him being tremendously compensated to leave and go screw up some other company instead.

Ok sarcasm aside, I completely get where you are coming from. Sadly I have to agree with the, if they don't have money to do it right, they don't have money for you. If you're sure there's no compensation for extra work, then perhaps you should do it, put it on resume and then use said improved resume to find a company that rewards this kind of effort. You may however wish to defer that until after the next performance review where at such time you can push for a salary increase based on the added value that you have now demonstrated that you can provide.

Notepad++ and Teracopy. Don't need to wait for windows 8 for that.

Just remember: Before there was a Reddit Effect, or a Dig Effect, there was the Slashdot Effect. /. had the ability to overwhelm sites by creating interest in them on a scale not really seen before. Web servers would tremble if they became a front page story here. I've been a mostly silent lurker for years before I finally set up an account and I'm still mostly silent, but it's we that should be thanking you for all the fish. Wish you luck and happiness in your future endeavors.

It hit my system about 9:45am Central time US. I was able to yank it out of the updates for the rest of the company before it went farther. I had 3 machines out of about 200 affected by this. On my machine it didn't delete svchost.exe on the others it did. One machine did not auto reboot. It was just very slow, the start menu looked like it had been pulled all the way down to the bottom however you could not drag it back up. All USB ports except one stopped working and there was no network access.. On that machine svchost.exe had 0 bytes. Adding the updated extra.dat to program files\common files\mcafee\engine and replacing svchost.exe resolved all issues. There's an updated 5959 dat file out now that forgoes having to deal with extra.dat.

The updated dat is available now, an updated extra.dat was available earlier this morning. I was the one that posted it in the tech support forums. You could have however just disabled access protection and on access scan to keep it from scanning at all. Not a great solution but at least your machine works. If your svchost.exe got nuked, copy it back from the system32\dllcache folder.

So you're of the opinion that if something doesn't meet up with claimed performance gains, obviously the purchaser is at fault and it's not possible that the manufacturer overstated claims at all? Or worse, you're saying that if you actually believed a vendor, you're an idiot? If you aren't seeing the benefits claimed, you should just what, shut up and not say anything? I don't agree with that. I don't think you do either and I'm probably oversimplifying your argument, but that's how it breaks down when I look at it. I think if you're in a position to throw some weight around as a company that size is, you go ahead and speak up and call a spade a spade. It may come down to something Facebook is doing wrong, in which case that guy will be eating a lot of crow, but if in fact, there's some overstating going on, and we know there often is, it's in the best interest of everyone if people step up and call them on it. I'll cite the AMD example again. We all know batter claims are BS, so why should we continue to put up with it? The answer is, we shouldn't, but what you or I say on a comment board, even slashdot, isn't really going to make a difference to your hp's and lenovo's and dell's, because none of them are willing to make a realistic adjustment to their numbers unless they are sure the others will follow, otherwise hey they are suddenly getting a lot less run time than everyone else. It takes a company such as AMD to put it out there on the table to get attention. I think he has some very valid arguments there. Again, specifics and numbers would really help that article, but take a look at google. They basically have the same opinion which is why they build their own units. There's a lot of debate as to if that's a great idea to do or not, but I think google won that debate because they do it and it works. Perhaps Facebook is going to need to go a similar route if server vendors aren't going to deliver what they want. We're all sitting here nitpicking the words of a company that actually runs a huge operation whereas I'd be willing to be bet most of the people here replying (myself included) have never operated anything on a scale that they are talking about. I think we're going to have to wait and see, but I'm hoping there's some follow up articles that detail this out more as I'd like to see the ultimate outcome.

I have a poster of that in my office... the cheap/fast/good triangle :) A lot of vendors like Lefthand however like the whole tray of sata drives... It's not bad for things like file servers for mid range companies.

I think you're doing a bit of guilt by association. The IT guys running the back end are not necessarily the ones that do code design, or corporate direction such as what new bone headed feature to add into Facebook that will annoy all of the users today. I'd suspect they are like a lot of companies where they are just tasked with making it work. You can't scale to something of Facebook's size without knowing a bit about what you are doing. Don't lump the techs in with the policy makers.

What a waste of money, you could have gotten one of those things you plug into your cigarette lighter and gotten similar results ;)

Hence my request for more specifics.

My problem with this decision is this: They violated the girls rights (which thankfully SCOTUS recognized). There is however no punishment for doing so. Will the next school go ahead and do the same thinking there will be no consequences? What's the point of having rights, if they can be violated at will, and the only thing that happens to the violator is that they are told they shouldn't have done that?

I think we read different articles. He's not saying he didn't plan well enough, he's saying that Intel and AMD promise that Gen Y processor is 35% faster than Gen X processor, and he's not seeing anywhere near 35% in real world performance. The 35% is a made up number but it doesn't matter what the number is that they claim. He's probably correct. Manufacturers pull this stuff all the time. Look at the recent articles on battery life claims on notebook's. AMD came out and called BS on the whole thing and basically said if you guys don't stop lying through your teeth, the FTC is going to regulate us. From the perspective you are taking, that would mean we have to call AMD incompetent for not understanding how batteries work and not properly selecting them.

Manufacturers ALWAYS overstate claims in computer related products. CRT actual inches vs viewable inches (thank you lcd's for finally being honest... about inches anyway.. brightness and contrast however....) Computer speaker wattage being 1/2 or 1/4 of what's claimed. Power supply efficiency or wattage not measuring up to claims... you name it. He's calling out what he see's to be bogus claims based on a real world experiences in a demanding environment, the type of environment where one is always looking for better performance. I think we should get some more information before declaring him to be the problem as I'm sure he has a whole team of people that are working on this issue.

What I'd like to see from him is some numbers. On this Intel (or AMD) rig, we get so many operations per hour/minute/whatever. On this new Intel (or AMD) rig which they claim is 20% faster than the previous rig, we're only seeing this number of operations per hour which amounts to only a 7% gain, thus we're seeing 13% less than they are claiming. Again, numbers made up for examples sake. I'd also be very interested in what a typical rig of theirs looks like... X Processor, Y Ram, what type of storage system is it connected to, etc. I think such numbers are vital to understanding the issues at hand. We all know that vendors will run the benchmarks that makes their stuff look the best, and that is often not reflective of real world performance. If I was Intel/AMD I'd be chiming in right about now and opening a dialog with Facebook and looking to see what the issues are. Facebook is a big customer with huge name recognition and you want to be able to use them as an example of your solution delivering the promised performance for your marketing. I'm going to assume (I know I know) that they are already working with the server vendor to try and see what's going on here.