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To: rudedog who wrote (43497)	1/14/1999 7:07:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

rudedog: Thanks, I have found this all very informative. I note that the COMPAQ Deskpro does have about 1/8th inch clearance at the bottom and the new carpet it was sitting on may have elminated that. +++++++OT++++++++++++++++++ In reply to your University question I may have been the victim of inter-departmental squabbles. There was a Computer Department (teaching and research) which also had formal authority over the purchases of University equipment. The School of Management, however, refused to recognise the authority or competence of the Computer Department. I had paid for my own computer but had bought on the recommendation of the S of M computer guy. When things started to go wrong I consulted the Head of the Computer Department who had a Ph.D. in the subject and was internationally recongised. This enraged the S o M. I held a unique position in the University straddling three Departments. (I was designing, introducing, funding and directing the first-ever degree program in Canada for aboriginal peoples in Self-government and Business Enterprises and Managament. I also ran a national not-for-profit institute which I founded in the same general area. My field was controversial in Canada, and espescially in the part of the country where the University was. The School of Management had a high percentage of Mormons who had rather hard views on the aboriginal peoples. The guy who dealt with computers in the S o M was one of these people. I never thought there had been sabotage, until the Computer Department guy insisted on sending the hard disk to IBM. The bad blood between the two departments was really intense - the Computer Department guy told me he had been hospitalised as the result of the stress caused him by the S o M. The book that was destroyed was about the politics and economics of aboriginal peoples, and especially about some international campaigns in which I had been a leading advisor. Many in S o M resented the new programme which I was introducing (and for which I raised about $5 million in the oil and gas sector - money they would have preferred to have gone to their programs). So there were two possible motivations for sabotage. It may also have been that the S o M guy tried to "fix" my computer ineptly to prove the Computer Department guy was wrong. I had kept some earlier drafts on hard copy, but I was a novice with computers and had not backed up correctly. Eventually I dropped the legal action because I was several thousands of miles away, by then, and it was impossible to put a defensible value on the damages I was claiming or identify the perpetrator. When I was a boy I was impressed to be told that every sound wave continues to exist in the atmosphere and that if one had a sensitive enough receiver one could still pick up the words of Julius Ceasar or Christ. My original question about what happens to data when the delete button is pressed was inspired by the thought that somewhere in the ether my book is floating about just waiting to be "read".