From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx.dlasys.net (24.152.192.123.res-cmts.eph.ptd.net [24.152.192.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5695EDDDCA for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:08:45 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <469859A9.408@dlasys.net> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:05:45 -0400 From: "David H. Lynch Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robertson, Joseph M." Subject: OT Re: [PATCH] Xilinx SystemACE device driver References: <20070712225138.13213.38257.stgit@trillian><939D37AEB47F1F49B88FAB6599B6023501A1720B@hsv1dafpew02.das.gov.sanm.corp> <939D37AEB47F1F49B88FAB6599B6023501A17210@hsv1dafpew02.das.gov.sanm.corp> In-Reply-To: <939D37AEB47F1F49B88FAB6599B6023501A17210@hsv1dafpew02.das.gov.sanm.corp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Linux PPC Linux PPC List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Robertson, Joseph M. wrote: > Hi, > > Ok, so outlook is a problem. The horror is that, where I work thats all I can use. They block all the outside systems like gmail, yahoo, etc. So under linux, I have to use the web access for outlook. ugh. > Why I work here I don't know, they think all software HAS to be bought. Yet they want you doing Linux development ? I am an MSCE. I tried really really hard to like exchange/outlook. But after loosing too many weekends and holidays to emergency rebuilds of exchange mailstores I switched. Finding a better mail server proved trivial - I use exim/cyrus, but many many other combinations work well. The only time I have had to rebuild a cyrus mailstore was when the HD it was on coughed up 64K bad sectors in one night. I was able to recover 99% of everything, exchange would have chucked the whole mailstore. It has taken a long time for Open Source mail clients to offer competitive features to OutLook But almost every one I have ever tried has been more robust. If you are planning on doing embedded linux development you will be more productive the more immersed you are. While you can do alot of linux work from windows - one of my partners builds Linux apps inside visual studio, it is not the same. I have had clients with ludicrous self defeating [in]security like you have described. I have never met a firewall I could not pierce - included at some defense installations I am not supposed to talk about. I can pretty much always create a vpn back to my own servers and then do whatever I please. > Joe Robertson > x8259 > Joseph.Robertson@sanmina-sci.com > > -- Dave Lynch DLA Systems Software Development: Embedded Linux 717.627.3770 dhlii@dlasys.net http://www.dlasys.net fax: 1.253.369.9244 Cell: 1.717.587.7774 Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein