On Tue, 25 May 2004, Lionel Hendricks wrote:
> Actually my environment is over 99% windows workstations. We access all of
> the *nix boxes via SSL from W2K/XP. We've got *nix boxes for everything from
> Web & Mail, to Databases and IDS's... you name it (there are also Windows
> counterparts to each as well). Point is, all of our Admins / Engineers spend
> their time working on their *nix machines from a Windows box... So I get
> what homeboy was saying...
We've all had to deal with shops that restricted the tools made available.
I found those shops restrictive, but, learned to plod along. But, when
I'm working with a unix env, I like my desktop OS to be a closer
approximation of the env I might be developing tools for. I have worked
with dual-boot laptops, sun sparc 10's on my desk, apollo's, SGI's and on
occasion with two systems hogging space that might otherwise hold tons of
paperwork, one for then danged windows apps management continues to buy
into, and then my real work box running an OS other then windows. Now
those are the flexible shops to work in, when limits are not so emposing.
But gawd man, if I'm gonna irc, I'll do it at a commandline client on the
*nix system. I don't want cute colors, I do not need little smilies
graphics, nor all then super little chan hacking mirc addon scripts
messing up a communications env.
Next yer gonna opt I should drop elm and pine, or at least netscape when X
is needed, and get a real e-mail client like outlook! <grin>
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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