City of Toronto: spinning freely
Ilya Palagin
IlyaPalagin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 22 15:35:31 UTC 2004
Phillip Mills wrote:
> A day late, I've just read a Saturday Toronto Star article called, "MFP
> computers obsolete." (Page B3, GTA section)
>
> It looks to me as if both the techs and the politicians are trying to soften
> up the public so that they will swallow a 63 million dollar computer upgrade
> of 1999 vintage systems. There may be good business reasons for the upgrade,
> but the technical ones they provide are baffling to me.
>
> 1) "Toronto would like to adopt a 311 system where residents could punch in
> that number and get information on city services or report problems. That
> would require major upgrades."
>
> It might require new servers, but as an excuse for upgrading stuff that's
> performing some current function, the reasoning doesn't cut it.
This may also require installation of a client software for this "311
system", which needs PIII to show smoothly nice logos and funny icons.
>
> 2) "Deputy Mayor Sandra Bussin illustrated how out of date city hall's systems
> are by pointing out that her office computer can't send a photo via e-mail."
>
> OK, where do I start...? I'm not a PC hardware expert, but my oldest Mac is 4
> years older that her PC and it has no trouble sending a photo via
> e-mail...guess it's a Wintel thing. Semi-seriously, though, anyone here
> think they could get poor Sandra's machine to send a photo via e-mail for
> less than $63 million?
>
I'm sure, there is simply no need to get her a new machine. I would
delete temp files, cleaned registry, or better reinstalled her buggy
windows from scratch just for Today's Special Price of $1,000.
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