[H-GEN] QUT experiences the real world?

[Luke Grant]

>
>The system must have taken months, if not years to plan and deploy, and
>would have cost millions.  It makes my wonder why CS would have bothered,
>with such a lousy cost/benefit tradeoff.  I guess this could be held up as
>one example of how NOT to make people more accountable for the costs they
>incur.  
>

If only this were true then it might work. The system (according to one CS
guy whom i talked to on thursday night) took only about a month to set up
after over six months of procrastination over how they were going to price
the charges. Apparantly the set up is mainly a couple of patches on the
proxy server that runs a couple of little "C" programs. 

I have no way of knowing wether or not this is correct information because
it only came from one of the help desk guys who was an IT student untill he
dropped out in favor of an Arts course....??????.

QUT has also lost money by doing this because all of a sudden all of the
people who were on their Dial-In service are leaving in favor of UQ's
external accounts. The meager quota given to students ($10 dollars credit)
is barely enough for university work let alone any other use. People i know
who are still with QUT are running the internet with on LYNX over telnet
sessions to the university computers to save bandwidth. 

QUT have a lot to answer for over this one. We already pay $4700 per year
to study, these sort of extra charges just serve to anoy students.

Luke Grant

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