Either the map has changed or you suck at geography!

That is South Carolina, not Georgia.

The problem is, I'm a University library's systems librarian, the user rights and policies are set by the main IT department - so I have no control of it.

Ultimately, it is their responsibility to fix the machines, but if we wait for them, it takes 2-3 weeks, whereas I can get to them usually on the same day.

Now I could change the policies on these machines - at least the users who have the most problems - but I'm not sure how the main IT folks would feel about this. One thought I'm entertaining is to install Deep Freeze - the software we use for the public PCs - on these staffers' machines, and just leave a thawspace for documents. I really hate being that restrictive, but I also hate spending hours straightening out their machines every month or two.

I've been losing this battle with the staff where I work; they just can't seem to understand that it is itself spyware and/or viruses. I've had to remove this crap from 5 or 6 computers in the last month alone.

I grew up in a conservative rural area as well, and we read 1984 and Brave New World in high school. There were definitely people in the area that wanted Harry Potter removed from the libraries too.

Um. Equilibrium was a ridiculously heavy handed hack-fest of a movie. The only redeeming bit was the action.

I've got a TRS-80 Color Computer 2...about 25 years old...in the original box with all of the accompanying papers and the book.

It doesn't work though...or at least I couldn't get it to work.

Unfortunately, a screen replacement for my laptop is prohibitively expensive. If I could get one for $50, I probably would, but I haven't seen one for less than about 2-3 times that much. (dell inspiron 5150) Worst computer purchase on my part ever I think.

That guy's resume needs some work.

I love the brown theme. I switched to KDE for a while last year and one of the first things I did was set it up to look like the standard gnome/ubuntu theme.

As a librarian, I can tell you that we are not a dangerous bunch. Greyfox has it right - we may get up in arms over something, but ultimately we do nothing. At best we have a long meeting about it.

From what I understand their ATM security is just fine.

I've always felt that the poor security and poor implementation on the voting machines is intentional to allow for the possibility of fraud - or more to the point to allow for officials to say, "these have been hacked...by someone else!" after they are themselves caught hacking them.