deployments

Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers.

The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts on Vista deployments.

On Thursday night, journalist Dahr Jamail spoke to a group of about 300 on campus, sharing his personal accounts of his eight months in Iraq.

A main focus of his talk being the media's coverage of the war, he spent more than 10 minutes criticizing the April 3 Daily Texan story "Young vets recount deployments," which was the second in a series about students who have served or are serving in Iraq.

Some of the Army's best captains are getting out of the war in Iraq. They are tired of long deployments and the strain on their families.

But in hopes of getting captains to re-enlist for another three years, the military is offering a $35,000 bonus.