I use to work for some Congressmen doing computer stuff. Most of the Congress men do not have computers on thier desk.
I used to purchase computer a little below the "sweet spot", and have a 3 year replacement cycle. With the very limited budgets for computer equitment it is very hard to do neet and interesting things.
I work in the IS deptment of a large university. Our IS management is so big on privicy that they will not allow virus scanning of servers and e-mail. This is nice from a policy point, but very difficult to explain to users why the lastest (and not so latest) virus has just eaten thier hard drive and thier research data.
We also do not run firewalls, because they limit "accadmic freedom". Of course users machines are being hacked on a regular basis.
While people are concered about their privicy, there also needs to be a balance on preserving users data.
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I use to work for some Congressmen doing computer stuff. Most of the Congress men do not have computers on thier desk. I used to purchase computer a little below the "sweet spot", and have a 3 year replacement cycle. With the very limited budgets for computer equitment it is very hard to do neet and interesting things.
I work in the IS deptment of a large university. Our IS management is so big on privicy that they will not allow virus scanning of servers and e-mail. This is nice from a policy point, but very difficult to explain to users why the lastest (and not so latest) virus has just eaten thier hard drive and thier research data. We also do not run firewalls, because they limit "accadmic freedom". Of course users machines are being hacked on a regular basis. While people are concered about their privicy, there also needs to be a balance on preserving users data.