Keith wrote: > Workflow would be simpler in my wife's new office if we could > print envelopes with postage - one operation rather than three. > There are apps for PC and Mac that do this. Is there anything > available for Linux, or a webapp accessable with a browser?
Ken Stephens wrote: > Have you tried loading the Windows app in the latest wine? Thanks but ... Before this gets too far: no, we are not going to run windows apps, under wine or vmware or native. The windows security model, and the programs designed for it, is awful. Perhaps there are people who are competent to maintain windows app security, but I am not one of them. I'd rather eat glue: http://weheartit.com/entry/13530002 This is for a medical office - HIPAA is growing an enforcement arm, and the consequences of a security breach can be bankruptcy and prison time. The postage programs reach out over the internet to the USPS, making them a path for malware. I am semicompetent to keep malware out of a Linux system. I can hire others who can do an excellent job. The Mac/BSD security model is robust, and similar enough to Linux to learn quickly. Either native Linux apps, or Mac if we have to. A Pitney-Bowes meter is time consuming and expensive, but if the alternative is a Windows program, a meter is damned difficult to zombie. If someone wants to buy one of the windoze programs, wrap it inside a web app, and sell me PNG postage images over the net, I'll buy from them, and let them manage the security issues. Why buy the cow ... ? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
