[BLUG] Interesting article for those still tethered to Windows by one or two applications

Michael Schultheiss blug_at_mailman.cs.indiana.edu
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:12:19 -0500


Simon Ruiz wrote:
> Yeah, I use tsclient as well, but I find it annoying and
> grating-on-the-nerves to switch back and forth between two desktop
> environments when all I need is that one app, like say Internet
> Explorer because the only way to access our e-mail at work is through
> Outlook Web Access (woohoo)...Hey, I wonder if the clipboard works
> smoothly with this set-up...

FWIW, OWA works in Firefox as well (at least it did with OWA for
Exchange that I last used about a year ago).

> <random whining>*sigh* I need a new computer...I'm getting sick of not
> having my own. It makes all the stuff I think would be really neat
> only really neat in a theoretical sort of way...</random whining>

Make a trip up to Fishers (just NW of Indy) after you save up about $300
and you can put together a very nice system from parts at Fry's. :)