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Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/PCB desktop icons and remote access?
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 ;-)
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> 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... :-(
>
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