In a message dated: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 19:46:58 EDT
"Bayard R. Coolidge" said:
>But, I do believe that when an employer issues you a piece of gear, they
>have the right to tell you what you can/will run on it and have the
>expectation that you will follow that edict. The flip side of that They ar
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 19:19, Ben Boulanger wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Btw, while I'm inefficiently doing the job using tools I'm not overly familiar
> > with 'because you said so', I'll also be looking elsewhere for employment with
> > a company who values efficiency
Well, having come from a wierd environment where UNIX (and a certain
other
well-known nearly quarter-century old proprietary operating system) were
barely tolerated by the Corporate Management that was 1500+ miles away
and
who thought Windows was the Cat's Meow, I can sympathize with both sides
of
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Btw, while I'm inefficiently doing the job using tools I'm not overly familiar
> with 'because you said so', I'll also be looking elsewhere for employment with
> a company who values efficiency of dictatorial and mindless rules without a decent
> unde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> So, why is it people are "forced" to use Windows? I really think
> it's gotten to the point that you can use Linux if you want to with
> out too much trouble. Barring the requirement of a very specialized
> application that must be run under Windows, anyone who sa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I was "forced to use Windows" for about 1 day at my current job. I
> thought about the cygwin route and got so far as getting it
> installed and running X. But then I began to realize I missing
> things I needed, like perl, so I'd install perl. Then something els
In a message dated: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 17:36:27 EDT
Tom Rauschenbach said:
>Sometimes some of that "talk" is company policy. Often when people say that
>they are 'forced" to use Windows, they don't mean that that need Windows for
>some reason or other, they mean that they are forced to use Wind
On Saturday 06 July 2002 h:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:05:32 EDT
>
>
> So, why is it people are "forced" to use Windows? I really think
> it's gotten to the point that you can use Linux if you want to with
> out too much trouble. Barring the requiremen
In a message dated: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:05:32 EDT
John Abreau said:
>When I'm forced to use Windows, I like to install cygwin, which includes
>OpenSSH and has an XFree86 add-on. In the past, before I tried cygwin,
>I would have recommended SecureCRT for Windows users; now I'd be
>tempted to offe
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