On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:29:08PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 08:37 am, Mike Jarabek wrote: > > > >I also run pcb under cygwin on a windows box at work. With the new X > > > server, the PCB window is just another window on the pc desktop. > > > > We are doing similar things here with gschem running on Solaris, and > > being displayed on a Winodows box running Cygwin-X. All indications are > > that this works fine. > > I was running Cygwin until IT said that it prevented them from restoring > a back-up tape when the windows server crashed. Something about > the execution attribute being set on the Windows Server back up files. I know > that makes no sense, they were just using me as the latest scape-goat. They > had used all of their other excuses with the weekly crashes that shut down > the company, except for my PC. Don't think they took it well that I could > still do my job and ship products. They tried to make it look like I was > doing something funky to violate Windows Server Security, got called to VP's > office to explain why my files had "funny attributes" on them and no one
You are l33t haxx0r tenorist, undermining stat3 s3kur1ty ;-) Cl< > else in the company had files like that. I just copied the tools that I use > to do my job to the server, Cygwin being one of them, as IT back-up policy > dictated. > > To top it off they came around on a weekend and reset all file attributes on > all machines in the company to their IT sanctioned attribute state. Needless > to say that completely nuked Cygwin that was on my own, non-network, machine. > > Things like that want me to get my resume up to date (Anyone here in the > Pittsburgh/Eire region?)! > > So Cygwin is not going to happen. Whatever runs on Windows has to be > as minimally invasive as possible, like using Internet Explorer to TightVNC's > HTTP built-in server. It also has to look like Windows. Remember logic does > not apply here... :-( > > > -- > � � � http://www.softwaresafety.net/ > �http://www.unusualresearch.com/ http://www.bpaddock.com/
