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What should they use for email?
by maxerickson 7mo ago
What should they use for email?
- buildbot 7mo agoAlpine & Linux?
- maxerickson 7mo agoAre you running that on a flight system or on an additional computer where it would be fine to run Windows?
- buildbot 7mo agoThe entire point is to avoid an OS like windows; and an email client like Outlook?
- maxerickson 7mo agoYeah I get the point, I'm saying it's not really a good point, running Windows and Outlook on a secondary system is fine. Forcing the astronauts to learn to use some other system would be a waste of time and probably worse than whatever it is you see as the problem.
- benhurmarcel 7mo agoMost probably it can’t connect to the server without running IT-mandated security software that runs only on Windows
- buildbot 7mo agoFYI Alpine: https://github.com/realpine/alpine https://github.com/realpine/alpine Not Alpine Linux, too late to edit to clarify
- HoldOnAMinute 7mo agoLiterally anything else. In 1992 we did email on the command line with green screen terminals
- Henchman21 7mo agoWhy do they “need” email access in the first place?! What the actual fuck.
- maxerickson 7mo agoWhy the poverty mindset? If we are gonna joy ride around the moon we should at least do it in style.
- ashton314 7mo agoThe poverty mindset is that you still need to check your mail while riding around the moon. Style would be no email at all.
- shoxidizer 7mo agoThey're officers and researchers strapped into their seats for 10 days, what could they be doing that doesn't involve email
- Henchman21 7mo agoResearch with the data they’ve collected so far? This hurts my brain so very much, the idea that email is necessary in outer space — I just threw up in my mouth a little.
- r_lee 7mo agowow imagine that, astronauts having to communicate with the outer world??? that's insane....
- saltcured 7mo agoTraditionally, officers would probably be working on their powerpoint slide decks. I wonder if they've checked for any rogue sharepoint instances yet...
- workfromspace 7mo ago
- forinti 7mo agoPine
- sam_lowry_ 7mo agoI am still using mutt.
- stockresearcher 7mo agoHuh, back in the 2001/2002 timeframe I worked at an old company that gave everyone a Windows laptop but us engineers also had UNIX accounts on the server cluster, which we logged into for dev work. Our company was hit with one of the worms (don’t remember which). Thousands of emails constantly coming in and everyone scrambling to delete them - except people like me, who were on vacation. I returned to an inbox that instantly crashed Outlook. IT was trying to find a solution. But I logged into the UNIX cluster, opened Pine, and deleted all the crap, page by page. When I got most of it done, Outlook started working again. IT was shocked but then told everyone else to go do what I did, eliminating their need to do any work. So I guess you win some and you lose some..
- forinti 7mo agoCouldn't you delete or filter /var/spool/mail?
- creaturemachine 7mo agoILOVEYOU was in 2000 and behaved that way. I remember we just shut off our Exchange servers until there was a fix. Email was still new enough that the world didn't implode.
- blinding-streak 7mo agoIs this a serious question