All posts tagged: Manager

Task Manager is lying about your GPU memory — here’s what’s actually happening

Task Manager is lying about your GPU memory — here’s what’s actually happening

Published by skeptic

If you’ve ever watched your games or rendering processes struggle to run out of nowhere, despite Task Manager telling you your GPU is well below max capacity, you’ve been lied to. Windows Task Manager may be the go-to tool for a quick hardware usage check, but it rarely tells you the full picture, or even the correct picture for that matter. And no, I’m not talking about you reading Task Manager’s memory page wrong. When it comes to VRAM, what Task Manager shows you and what’s actually going on can be significantly different. Thankfully, there’s a free tool that gets it right. Related I stopped using Task Manager once I found what Windows hides from it I stopped relying on Task Manager after discovering the hidden Windows activity it ignores. Task Manager isn’t telling the whole story What those GPU memory numbers actually represent Screenshot by Yadullah Abidi | No Attribution Required. To be fair, Task Manager’s GPU figures aren’t a total lie, but they are quite limited be design as to not intimate casual …

I replaced Task Manager, Startup apps, and Event Viewer with three better Microsoft tools

I replaced Task Manager, Startup apps, and Event Viewer with three better Microsoft tools

Published by skeptic

If something goes wrong with your PC, be it sluggish performance, slow startup issues or even frequent crashes, Windows offers a few built-in tools to know what’s wrong. For instance, Task Manager can tell you if sluggish performance is due to high disk or memory usage by a process, and Startup apps lets you measure and fix slow startup issues. Event Viewer, on the other hand, helps you know why and when your system crashed. But these tools only scratch the surface. You get the what, rarely the why. You could install third-party tools to fill that gap, but I didn’t have to. Microsoft’s own Sysinternals suite already has sharper alternatives to all three, built by the same people who know Windows internals better than anyone. Process Explorer, Autoruns, and Sysmon have replaced Task Manager, Startup apps, and Event Viewer on my setup for a while now. Process Explorer shows you what Task Manager hides A proper process tree with color-coded internals Task Manager is fine for the basics. I can glance at the Processes …

This open-source app made every download manager I used before feel unnecessary

This open-source app made every download manager I used before feel unnecessary

Published by skeptic

I have a complicated relationship with download managers. While some purists argue that the Command Prompt is actually the best download manager for Windows, I’ve always sworn by Internet Download Manager, which, in itself, is considered one of the best file download managers out there.I tolerated its garish toolbar and the annual license renewal that always seemed to sneak up on me right when I’d forgotten it existed. Things got messier during a stretch when I was splitting time between Linux and trying to find a capable Linux download manager. Then the cracks really showed: one app for torrents, a separate client for magnet links, and the browser fumbling through everything else with inconsistent results. I had four tools doing the job of one. Then a Reddit discussion thread mentioned Gopeed in passing — specifically the phrase “it just handles everything.” I clicked mostly out of habit, expecting another niche downloader I’d forget about in a day or two. That was several weeks ago, and I haven’t gone back to my old setup since. Now, …

Mobile Home Legislation in Arizona Target Utility Costs, Abandonment Rules and Manager Training

Mobile Home Legislation in Arizona Target Utility Costs, Abandonment Rules and Manager Training

Published by Sam Flores

For years, manufactured home park owners across Arizona would restrict what types of air conditioners or cooling devices people used on their mobile homes because they were noisy or ugly. That was until 2024, when a coalition of groups changed state law to make the practice illegal. Now a new legislative session is in full swing, and with it the hopes for new tools to improve the experiences of mobile home residents in Arizona. This year, she and other stakeholders around the state spent months in discussion to decide what bills felt most urgent to introduce. “We went to many, many meetings with all kinds of people,” Noble said. They held eight listening sessions with residents, utility companies and groups like anti-poverty organizer Wildfire AZ to help draft bills that would not only change state law but also add more enforcement. The Arizona Association of Manufactured Home Owners drafted one bill requiring more education for park managers, and worked with Wildfire to draft two utility bills that would prevent park owners from charging residents more …

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

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Xiaomi has hired Dieter Lorenz, Tesla’s Senior Manager of Delivery Operations for Central Europe, as its new Head of Delivery & Logistics Europe. The move signals that Xiaomi is aggressively building an operations infrastructure on the ground in Europe well ahead of its confirmed 2027 market entry. Lorenz isn’t the only Tesla operations employee making the jump, either. At least one other former Tesla operations staffer in Europe has also landed at Xiaomi, suggesting a deliberate recruitment push targeting Tesla’s European logistics expertise. From Tesla lifer to Xiaomi’s European logistics lead Lorenz spent over six years at Tesla in Germany, rising through a series of increasingly senior operations roles. He started as an Operations Supervisor in early 2020, moved up to Operations Manager for Germany, then expanded his scope to cover Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, then all of Central Europe. By September 2024, he held the title of Senior Manager of Delivery Operations for Central Europe — one of Tesla’s most important regional logistics roles. In a LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Lorenz …

Brewers Inherit ‘Rally Tortoise’ After Manager Pat Murphy Is Told No Pocket Pancakes in TV Interview

Brewers Inherit ‘Rally Tortoise’ After Manager Pat Murphy Is Told No Pocket Pancakes in TV Interview

Published by Sam Flores

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — First, the Milwaukee Brewers had “pocket pancakes.” Now, they have pocket turtles. This all probably needs an explanation. During a game last August, Brewers manager Pat Murphy was caught taking a pancake from the pocket of his hoodie for a midgame bite, right in the middle of a dugout interview during a game against the Nationals. It wasn’t necessarily new for Murphy, who’s been known to have everything from waffles to eggs rolls close at hand should he get the munchies. Back to the turtle — er, tortoise. The Brewers were supposed to play the Royals on Friday night on Apple TV, though the game was called 90 minutes before first pitch because of the rain. During a pregame interview with Apple’s reporter, Tricia Whitaker, Murphy said he was informed “under no uncertain circumstances, no pocket pancakes” during their talk, so he pulled out what was supposed to be a pocket turtle. “This is Bobby Jr.,” Murphy said in presenting it to her, having named the creature after his longtime …

Hedge fund manager ‘bullied colleagues not to put in measures to protect women’, tribunal hears | UK News

Hedge fund manager ‘bullied colleagues not to put in measures to protect women’, tribunal hears | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Former hedge fund manager Crispin Odey “bullied” colleagues not to introduce measures at his firm to protect women, a tribunal heard. The hearing on Thursday also heard accusations that the 67-year-old threatened to close the company, Odey Asset Management (OAM), in order to put pressure on its governing body. Mr Odey is taking legal action against the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after it fined him £1.8m and banned him from the UK finance industry last year over how he handled disciplinary processes into his alleged sexual misconduct at OAM. FCA lawyers told the Upper Tribunal in London that a report published by law firm Simmons & Simmons in January 2021 found at least 46 historical allegations of inappropriate conduct by Mr Odey towards female employees between 2003 and 2020. He was then alleged to have breached the terms of a final written warning by sexually harassing a temporary receptionist in 2021. Image: Mr Odey arriving at the tribunal in London earlier this week. Pic: PA The FCA alleges that Mr Odey then twice dismissed members …

Death of football manager Steve Bruce’s infant grandson leads to calls for urgent action | UK News

Death of football manager Steve Bruce’s infant grandson leads to calls for urgent action | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A coroner has called for action after the death of baby Madison Bruce Smith, who died after he was placed in an “unsafe sleeping position” in his cot by an unregulated maternity nurse. The four-month-old grandson of football manager Steve Bruce was found unresponsive by his father, ex-Leeds United and Fulham striker Matt Smith, on the morning of 18 October 2024. Madison could not be resuscitated at the family home in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and was taken to Wythenshawe Hospital where he was pronounced dead by paramedics. Mr Smith and his wife, Bruce’s daughter Amy, had employed Eva Clements through a company named Ruthie Maternity Services after their son had difficulties sleeping in the afternoons. They believed Ms Clements was skilled, fully trained and vetted, and that the company was a well-established maternity and sleep support service, but Stockport Coroner’s Court heard that neither was regulated. The inquest heard Madison’s parents would “never have dreamed” of putting their son down to sleep in the prone position, but had been advised to by the maternity nurse …

How to build a manager development program from scratch

How to build a manager development program from scratch

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sarah Bright, Head of L&D at Darktrace,built a manager development program from nothing. They trained 75% of their global managers across 20 cohorts in under two years. What follows is the practical detail behind how her team of three did it: the framework they built, how they measured success, and what she would tell anyone starting from the same place. How the need was identified Darktrace has seen rapid growth in employee count. With that growth came a pattern that will be familiar to many fast-scaling businesses: talented individual contributors being promoted into management with little to no formal training. “There wasn’t a shared language in what a manager is at Darktrace,” Sarah explained. People were drawing on whatever examples of management they had encountered, which varied enormously. The signals were coming from multiple directions. Employee engagement survey data showed strong demand for career development and clarity on progression. Requests for training were arriving directly and frequently. When Darktrace’s first Chief People Officer joined in 2022, the case for a structured manager development program was …

Chinese Adaptation of The Night Manager Adds to Cast Ahead of Filmart

Chinese Adaptation of The Night Manager Adds to Cast Ahead of Filmart

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Ink Factory has expanded the cast of its Chinese-language adaptation of The Night Manager, adding a slate of new supporting players and special appearances. The additional lineup was unveiled on the eve of Hong Kong’s Filmart — Asia’s leading film and television content market, running March 17–20 — where the title could be a top draw among regional buyers. The new additions include veteran Hong Kong actor Michael Dao, Malaysian actor Frederick Lee, rising Hong Kong actor George Au, and Hong Kong performers Alan Luk, Justin Chu and Elizabeth Tang, alongside special appearances by Carl Ng and Amy Lo. The names join the previously announced leads Eddie Peng and Sean Lau, alongside Isabella Leong and Carman Lee. The project is a pan-Asian reimagining of John le Carré’s espionage classic, produced with 127 Wall Productions and set to premiere on Youku in mainland China in late 2026, with Fifth Season handling global sales outside China. Peng, a Taiwan-born star with major commercial pull across the Chinese-speaking world, has anchored big-ticket films such as Dante Lam’s Operation …