On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jim Ray wrote: > True confessions. I'd like to catch you spewing winmail.dat one day :-)
Won't happen; my Exchange server is properly configured. Besides, I'm sending this from pine. I said our shop is "primarily" windows, not "entirely". We have a growing contingent of Linux systems, but 70%+ of our systems do run Windows. I was hired primarily to handle "everything else" but still spend about half my time fixing Windows stuff because the Linux systems generally work well. One caveat on that last statement; we're experimenting with a change in policy that gives users local root access to their Linux workstations. I can't say that it is a success or failure. But there is a big shift in the kind of problems I'm dealing with. My help desk requests used to be something like "I need to have package foo installed". Now users can do that themselves. Instead I'm dealing with problems now where users screw up their /etc/X11/XF86Config to something that flat out won't display, or otherwise render their systems unusable in the quest to make games work or play MP3's. Too early to say whether I'm spending more time on these issues or what. But I'm really finding "clean up after stupid users" work to be less enjoyable than things like refining my yum groups to automagically deploy software to all my users. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
