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Feb. 2nd, 2004 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightIn further other news, work(*) has switched its mail servers over to Microsoft Exchange, and they are strongly urging users to switch to Outlook, for easier virus propagation. Myself, I prefer to read mail on a box that I can ssh to from a character terminal. With rather a bit of help from meister, I got fetchmail, sendmail, and procmail all talking together nicely, and I can continue to use the same mailer I was using in the '80's. I feel mildly accomplished, since I'm not now, nor have I ever been a sysadmin.
(*)This is the same company that standardized on ClearCase instead of cvs for source control. ClearCase has some useful features, like acting as a live file system, and...and...something useful, I'm sure. But we're spending buckets of money on the licenses, and we have a group of people whose full-time job it is to babysit this thing.
(*)This is the same company that standardized on ClearCase instead of cvs for source control. ClearCase has some useful features, like acting as a live file system, and...and...something useful, I'm sure. But we're spending buckets of money on the licenses, and we have a group of people whose full-time job it is to babysit this thing.
