The real travesty is the wifi on this Air Force base is just slow enough to occasionally get me killed in Call of Duty. It's the lag, I swear.
We've also got WiFi NIPR. And WiFi SIPR. And it works, really well.
The real travesty is the wifi on this Air Force base is just slow enough to occasionally get me killed in Call of Duty. It's the lag, I swear.
USN has WiFi NIPR.We've also got WiFi NIPR. And WiFi SIPR. And it works, really well.
NMCI is an enterprise solution for every Navy employee. By using a widely proliferated OS we ensure max compatibility with others and ability to use many COTS apps while avoiding a huge.training overhead because most are familiar with the windows OS. USN doesn't want or need to sustain an in house Unix system. With a few exceptions most employees need a box that can do the email and some internetting. There are other solutions available for people who need more horsepower.I mean I dunno. Modern linux distros aren't THAT much harder to use, and don't look all to different from Windows at least from my experiences. Not too different from transitioning from Windows to MacOS. Seems like a full transition would make it easier to manage from the admin perspective in terms of upgrades, security etc, but I am sure there would be a metric ton of downsides too.
We have desktop machines for NIPR and SIPR. They run i3 4160 CPUs w/ 8GB RAM. Not stellar performance, but adequate.Its very hardware-dependent. In my DH tour, the NMCI assets were relatively effective, and I could get work done. Now that I'm at a shore command, it's terrible. Our notebooks here are the same models my fleet squadron had tech-refreshed 2-3 years ago, which were then replaced again in late 2019. They may not have enough RAM, but they definitely don't have the HDD bandwidth to support Windows 10 or the performance-crushing bloatware that is McAfee AV.
I have to reboot every time I bring it home or RAS/VPN won't work. Can't get any nerdery done in Excel without a few daily app crashes.
Maybe NAWDC has fleet-like priority/assets? The newest notebooks are silver with sleek low-profile docks. The dark gray notebooks were before that, and I rock a black HP, probably from before I winged.
Not sure if it's AF specific, but once I installed the "DOD Install Root" software, things started to magically start working. Of course there's the issue with the new Microsoft Edge not working with S/MIME, but...yeah.OWA is still kicking my ass, so can't check .mil email from home yet...
Not sure if it's AF specific, but once I installed the "DOD Install Root" software, things started to magically start working. Of course there's the issue with the new Microsoft Edge not working with S/MIME, but...yeah.
Its very hardware-dependent. In my DH tour, the NMCI assets were relatively effective, and I could get work done. Now that I'm at a shore command, it's terrible. Our notebooks here are the same models my fleet squadron had tech-refreshed 2-3 years ago, which were then replaced again in late 2019. They may not have enough RAM, but they definitely don't have the HDD bandwidth to support Windows 10 or the performance-crushing bloatware that is McAfee AV.
I have to reboot every time I bring it home or RAS/VPN won't work. Can't get any nerdery done in Excel without a few daily app crashes.
Maybe NAWDC has fleet-like priority/assets? The newest notebooks are silver with sleek low-profile docks. The dark gray notebooks were before that, and I rock a black HP, probably from before I winged.
Uggggghhh . . . RESERVIST SMASH!! ?Of course there's the issue with the new Microsoft Edge not working with S/MIME, but...yeah.