She buys them out of her work budget but they need to be integrated into the Board's lan. She needs to hook into various Admin systems & this is totally under the teck staffs control. At this moment her 1 year old machine is freezing up in Outlook whenever she trys to mail a large document (it is an in thing these days in educational circles to use & pass around large numbers of electronic pictures & movies of children & teachers). It has been happening for almost 2 months & after much work by the teck staff & frustration for my wife they have narrowed it down to 2 possibilities: it is an MS problem with Office XP or it is not really happening. Whatever the problem, it is most definitely not their problem. Also, if I tried changing any settings & the teck staff found out, they would refuse to maintain her machine. It is an all or nothing thing & I just do not have the time to be my wife's full time teck, besides, I do not have admin privledges on their servers.
My wife is planning to buy another new machine this summer because her experience says she will get about a year out of this new one before it deteriotes too badly.
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Jack
