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I wished I believed this, but it feels closer to 50% Apple, 35% Windows, 15% Linux.
It's probably more like 85% Apple, 10% Linux, 5% Windows.
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Until we've had this failure, I do agree that using COTS software was the logical choice. And now we know better.
Sure, but people who didn't know better until this particular incident do not deserve the title "engineer". Being able to classify and manage risks before they happen is engineering 101.
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I was you. And then I needed access to other account and you cant get them running without using Outlook as far as I can tell. I hate Apple Mail Search, I loath Outlook.
Interesting... I mean I use other non-Microsoft mail as well but to be fair I only use 1 Microsoft account.
Everyone likes to point and laugh, sure, I'm getting a chuckle as well. However, on more practical level, what are other options? Outlook, the desktop application works really well with local copies, is pretty low bandwidth and very familiar to end users. IMAP with Thunderbird is probably only other option that would satisfy the requirements. EDIT: Yes they need to get email in space. It's easy way to send documents…
What are they emailing? I'd guess that all of the telemetry data, visual data,etc is getting sent to mission control via radio link. What's the outlook email even for?
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Obligatory Linux comment when speaking about Microsoft, windows or anything related. I don't have Linux but you guys make it hard to like it.
I run Outlook in Wine or on the Web on Linux in a VM on Mac and make everyone mad.
You crazy mad man, are you trying to start a world war ??
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Discussion of the MIME part’s encoding as being an inefficient size is missing the forest for the trees. The entire message is (or can be) compressed before transmission (eg. When IMAP has DEFLATE enabled). Just because an intermediate encoding step expands binary to make it text safe doesn’t mean it has to stay uncompressed during the entire existence of that MIMe message.
But without the intermediate encoding step the compression would give a better result.
Everyone likes to point and laugh, sure, I'm getting a chuckle as well. However, on more practical level, what are other options? Outlook, the desktop application works really well with local copies, is pretty low bandwidth and very familiar to end users. IMAP with Thunderbird is probably only other option that would satisfy the requirements. EDIT: Yes they need to get email in space. It's easy way to send documents…
Neither outlook nor thunderbird. Best option would be some web browser based email + local web server (on board)