RE: Getting out of Office on campus [was: source of virus]

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

not that easy for most of us.  Here at Taos, now that I'm working here
internally, I have to use the LookOut/Sexchange combination because of the
fact that, well, the exchange server has all the calendaring stuff that I
need, and I've been TOLD that there's no POP3/IMAP access to the exchange
box, although I haven't tried it.

It's that way at a lot of companies, really.  Especially ones where
attachments fly fast and furious, and you're expected to reply in kind.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:turnbull@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:34 PM
To: Yong-Ming P.Hua
Cc: tlug@example.com
Subject: Getting out of Office on campus [was: source of virus]


>>>>> "Yong-Ming" == Yong-Ming P Hua <yhua@example.com>
writes:

    Yong-Ming> No way to get out of Office on campus you know...

"Just Say No."  Works fine for me.  strings nantoka.doc > nantoka.txt
is more than sufficient for admin BS, I refuse to proofread .docs for
English, and tell my students that they can submit text/plain,
application/*tex, or application/pdf.

If you must run Windows, XEmacs works fine (and probably GNU Emacs/NT,
but I have no first-hand experience with that).  With Cygwin you can
have all the usual GNU tools and a bash shell, maybe even vi.  (They
don't work reliably on Win-ME-harder, but then nothing, including
"Shutdown", works reliably on WinME.)

Sure, it's work at first.  But after a while people learn that you're
a refusenik, and they start automatically sending stuff in portable
formats.  And even senior faculty get tired of hearing "oh, I'm sorry,
putting that into Word means I won't be able to do it until Tuesday;
will PDF do?"


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