In defense (was Re: what to do about Windows email worms)

[Dan Barrett]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:40, Rich Braun wrote:
> My list includes:
>   - Excel/Word

OpenOffice 1.x works fine -- I say that as the lone Linux user in a 
Windows-only shop.  It's in my interest to blend in and keep quiet, and I 
haven't once had to ask anyone to translate a Word or Excel document into an 
open format for my benefit.  OpenOffice is only frustrated by one of our 
in-house "applications" which is a dog's dinner of the worst variety of 
script kiddie VB embedded in Excel.  Then again, it doesn't run on Excel 
three quarters of the time, either.  I'm quietly replacing it with a proper 
J2EE application.

>   - TaxCut
>   - Quicken
>   - Quickbooks

There are some GNUCash and Kapital users on this list: now's the time for them 
to pipe up.


>   - Exact Audio Copy

If it's CD audio extraction we're talking about, _nothing_ on earth comes 
close to cdparanoia, and the best part is that Konqueror uses it and lame to 
give you drag-n-drop ripping.  Any other need you might have is covered by 
sox (ever need to convert NeXT .snd files into raw data and boost the 
left-channel audio 10% in the process?  Yeah, me neither, but it's great for 
that kind of stuff).  WMA -> WAV can be done by mplayer.


>   - Citrix Client

If you area able to use Microsoft's Terminal Services client to connect to the 
box in question, rdesktop is a one-for-one replacement.  Again, permits me to 
do my job without raising any eyebrows.


As an added benefit to the above, I'm literally the only guy in the office who 
isn't affected when the latest and greatest Outlook scourge comes to town.

Best,
d.
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