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On Monday 04 March 2002 5:19 pm, John Horne wrote:
Hmm, you don't work for the University do you? I am amazed I am *still* allowed to run linux on my desktop - ableit that I'm the only one. We *still* have Sun boxes running Solaris which provide the central services - dns, mail, internal web server (and the business school provide a unix news server). However, the 'management' insist that we should be running Microsoft for pretty much everything. In the light of that I'm surprised I still even have a job here! Because I have been told that I 'have' to have access to the Exchange server for mail (etc), so I have to have a separate PC alongside my linux one. It's well and truely daft.
I'm in a very similar situation at my college as the only person to use Linux on my desktop machine in an environment which is almost entirely MS based. The college exchange server is a real problem for me. I deal with it by using a yahoo mail address as much as possible and just booting my machine into windows once per day to find any mail sent to my college address. Yahoo mail seems to be a pretty good service fetching mail via pop3, but I have had problems sending it out to their smtp server so I use sendmail on my desktop machine to handle that but please don't ask me how it all works :) I guess my employers are pretty tolerant of my activities. They let me reuse a 'retired' desktop machine as an Linux intranet server which I use to dish out on-line catalogues, virtual fieldwork and an image library to geography students with the aid of Apache, Zope and Htdig (uptime 61 days). Linux now has a far higher profile than it used to have and pretty much everyone with an interest in IT has at least heard of it, so I suppose it makes sense to let someone play with it, even if it is only the geography technician! Tony -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Atkin Geography Department, The College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth email: tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx, tatkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx tel: 01752 636700 ext. 4316 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.