Thats just what I had for my first camera. It has practically all the manual controls and you can find lenses for it many places. Doesnt need a battery except for that light-measuring thingy. The thing is quite rugged but the shutter speed is 1000 max, and I've made some nice pics off of it. Careful about the quality of the lens on any manual camera, generally the body is 40% and lens 60$ of the total cost. Skimping on the lens is not a good idea and can put off both a budding and a fully flowered fotographer
My arms ARE stronger, and I cant carry the thing around my neck while I'm cycling or even just hiking. I've handled nicer nikon canon etc cameras, but for some reason they seem like too much electronics and too many variables to keep in mind while composing a picture. If I had to get a new one, I'd probably go with a medium format camera with the exact featureset of the SRT201.
... to install that train between Toronto and Montreal. I for one dont believe Quebec's french heritage will be hurt by letting the English in every weekend.
They've been debating installing a train that will make travel between Toronto and Montreal 1 hour in duration.
I've been fascinated by Quebec and have been trying to learn french, but I can only visit on weekends and have to spend a night in the expensive motels there. Canada could become smaller that way, and trade can increase... if they can put their differences aside.
This enforces the idea that Opensource software users should more feverishly follow up on patches. Major exploits like the recent sendmail and ssh exploits are announced quickly and patches sent out in hours. Users of mission critical systems should not be afraid to download newer versions, compile and replace binaries frequently.
At least for these users theres hope. The MCSEs out there just have to hold on to their tapes.
What? You mean RedHat isnt already up there recognized as one of the standard CC OSes?
RedHat has been leaving home desktop users and free ISO downloaders in the dust trying to stay up there in this market. RedHat has been one of the forces standardizing Linux in its entireity. Application developers use RPMs despite its inferior structure, because it has become the standard for Linux. The biggest problem Linux is currently facing is the desktop home and office user market, and thats because of no standard GUIs, standard packaging system and other such. RedHat has now left that building, and Linux is once again in a bad need of a large company's backing to ferment on the desktop. Good Luck against Windows 2003.
I hope those certs dont just become anoter set of certs you can have after 3 weeks of exam crams. They should be able to seperate the boys from the men the way CCIE does.
I think we desperately need tough Linux certs to aim for, certs which will in time be respected enough to be of greater weight than the college degrees. Right now theres no standard way for a company to look for a highly skilled linux technician who can be creative, knowledgeable and original in solving problems. They just go for students from the best universities who have taken lots of java pascal and ada courses.
I agree. Back then the 6502 CPU was all they had, and there were so many possibilities with the code. Most of those possibilities have been exhaused with awesome games like Doom, Lemmings, Halflife and Giants.
Old games can really be reused. The can be compiled for cellphones PDAs or simply run through emulators. Sure beats the silly Java games made to complement a new platform and built under tight deadlines.
In the future, PDAs and cellphones and pocket consoles will be powerful enough to play DOOM3s and CounterStrikes. Will be sad to see crappy Java games on those.
Re:Why aren't pre-emptive and low-latency merged?
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Pretty simple. There will be NO new features in 2.4. All that energy will be spent on 2.6. Only bugfixes and patches etc will be done in 2.4 for those users that are running very critical servers and have already found all the features they need in 2.4.
Say you have a bunch of volunteer programmers, will you divide them between 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6? Both the programmers and the vast majority of users will want them working in 2.6. In fact if Linux wasnt so corporate-conscious, there should be no work done at all in 2.2 and 2.4.
Our Linux firewall was compromised a while ago. The attacker apparently used a samba exploit to break in (RedHat 9.0 with patches installed) and then tried a bunch of sendmail, NFS and samba exploits on other machines. Its not clear how he got root access but it seems he replaced some libraries with a few extra routines. After becoming root, he replaced all files in/bin and tried many exploits on the win2000 servers.
We were lucky not to have been hit hard, but the scare made us replace the Linux with an OpenBSD firewall with tightly configured ipf and snort. In the proceeding days, we logged attempted telnets and ssh from 3 different IPs 2 in korean primary schools, 1 from a chinese telecommunication company. (APNIC)
So the RedHat has been moved to be an internal server and we're careful about packet filtering now. Theres a finer level of permissions control all over the place and all services run as nonroot users, some in jails.
So why another fork really? Security? You got OpenBSD, a standard OS, relatively well-known in the security circles and affiliated with many major security projects. Many VPN clients are benchmarked against this OS. Stability? yahoo and ftp.cdrom.com use FreeBSD. Can you convince us you can beat that? Extentions? Linux and NetBSD have numerous ports. Linux is used on many mainframes and microcontrollers as standard OS.
So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?
I'm concerned because I'm an OS buff, have used Plan9 and Xenix and Linux on a dreamcast. I'm just not sure I along with so many other alternative OS users should take this one seriously beside the reasons you've listed. If it is just a pet project for yourself... thats cool. We'll just go back to the BSD.
There are things that can be outsourced to far away places. Portions of code can be programmed in a different country if strict specifications and quality control procedures are set out. Manufacturing of hardware has been the easiest part of IT to outsource... count the IBM motherboards out there that are made in Malaysia or Taiwan. And what IS the difference between Athlon chips fabricated in Malaysia or Germany? Building all parts of a computer in USA will probably be like buying a baseline Pentium4 for $4000.
Support however should never be far from the point of service. This is like hiring a Network admin in India to support a small company in Toronto. Customer Support, beside being close to the engineers and design or manufacturing centres, should also be culturally and linguistically closer. I am personally surprised any company even attempted to outsource call centers to 11 time zones away.
...shoring up what they have now in order to maximize its usefulness...
I would shore up the usefulness of the IT infrastructure of my company rather than slap another requisition on the table for a brand new server. This is a Microsoft based network with the network and servers taking good pressure from the users. A few years ago I would've tried to push management for better servers and gigabit ethernet, but one should see such problems as challenges to their skills.
Smarter placement of switches, interswitch links moved to gigabit, tuning the MS SQL server, replacing the winproxy firewall with openbsd, getting a cisco 1700, moving services to makeshift servers, stuff like that will allow a company to wait another year before investing in cutting edge. It will also require some creativity and activity on behalf of the IT guys.
I have been using QT in several places and know it better than wxWindows FLTK and others. So I'm not clear why this guy got modded down. He's right. QT makes C++ actually work the way it should, and the most complex apps compile fine under different compilers in different operating systems while remaining tiny, fast and stable.
Yes this guy is wrong about free. I just dont have the 6 grand CDN dollars to roll out commercial apps that I'd like with QT. Sucks.
Any vibrating electric signal emits radio waves. Radio waves at higher frequencies become light.
So its interesting to see the transistors gaining higher speed. Visible light is 384 to 769 THz, so the whole circuit spontaneously glows red and passes all rainbow colors to violet, then grows dark again as we speed up the circuit. This is probably the most efficient way to produce light anyway.
So we'll have blubs that will provide us with a wide spectrum of lights just as daylight and LCD monitors with insanely high resolutions and color bits
No, what kills many people's freedom of speech are totalitarian governments such as China, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia where you can be jailed for speaking out on a street corner. Citizens of such countries have far more to worry about than being behind a NAT
My ISP Sympatico blocks port 25 and my college blocks inbound port 80 so noone in the college can run webservers. I guess I should not complain since some guy in China cant talk about democracy.
As for your "spirit of the Internet": what a whimsical invention. There is no such thing
There is such a technology which allows millions of people across many boundaries to connect and share information directly with little cost. That forms the basis of the spirit of the Internet, where people started sharing source code and developed Linux and slashcode. My little brother runs his own IRC server and shares data using P2P software. He also runs game servers and forms online communities with friends in 3 countries.
Yes the Internet was not orginally intended to be all this. And you know what? UNIX was not originally not intended as a serious OS either.
At a certain point in the middle of the last decade, everyone thought they would run out of IP addresses. Work was then put into routers and firewalls to bring to the masses the CIDR and NAT to stem the tide. Now on cisco routers you can do fancy port forwarding to use several servers behind one IP. All this work however could have been replaced by investing in ipv6. The fact that ipv6 is not being implemented means investment is being put into a scheme in which people will eventually run out of IP addresses, while there is a complete alternative available.
The single biggest damaging factor of ipv4 is the fact that you cant really run servers behind it. There are already ISPs in many countries that provide service from behind a NAT firewall. This kills many people's freedom of speech and the spirit of the Internet where everyone had their own servers and ran whatever they wanted.
The second damaging factor of the ipv4 is the control that IANA has. Both ICANN and IANA have been used politically and now we have many American ISPs churning out 4 IPs per person and 64 IPs per company, mostly going to waste while ISPs in some countrys like Pakistan's PakNET have 100,000 customers behind one IP none of whom can run their own servers.
ipv6 can fix all these problems in one fell swoop, simplify routing enormously and introduce IPSec and other security technologies.
With that freshly revealed philosophy of Bill, it makes me wonder what if the developers of BSD thought that? What if IOS developers at Cisco thought that? Or the people working on any router that works with the BGP or OSPF routing protocols that run the Internet?
Or what if the developers of Apache, Qmail, heck even the Linux kernel thought they will just shift the burden of network security to the vendors of some other software. Now imagine the catastrophe if Microsoft can legally block the development of BSD and Linux, and buy out Cisco.
The Aussi courts should really let the guy go. They should just release his picture, name, address, phone number, addresses of his relatives and friends, the name of his college, and they should track him and keep the public updated about his whereabouts. The ensuing witchhunt will demonstrate the public's true willingness to put in effort to get rid of spam.
If this was Saudi Arabia, they would tie him to a post and let anyone who has received more than 1000 emails in one day give this guy a bonk in the nose. I know I would pity him real soon.
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Why does it seem ever since they brought out WINNT 3.5, they have been trying to sneak their way into UNIX style architectures. win9x crapped out so they needed a better structured kernel with proper permission and process control. They ever sneaked in the BSD TCPIP stack.
Brought out.NET to compete with J2EE, but really the COM and other RPC stuff in Windows are descended from Sun's RPC. Active Directory was brought in from other LDAP efforts, and using Microsoft's monopoly has been trampling other directory services like iPlanet and Novell AD.
Funny now they're looking into CLI which will gradually seem more like bash since most of their CLI designers would be well-acquainted with UNIX, and their users too. As Microsoft will follow UNIX in innovation, the UNIX/Linux/BSD community will get greater credibility. Microsoft is undermining itself by not innovating fast enough.
Any combination can be sent by accident, so no matter what they pick, their chance of screwage remains the same
I really intended to say it should be a tough combination. Instead of sending a 'command' for writing to the chip consisting of one byte, it should send maybe a 8 byte preshared key. Sending 8 bytes by chance of a buggy software to exactly that port should be EXTREMELY rare.
can't exercise extra caution around that sequence because they don't know it
I still believe the firmware write command combination should be kept secret. Driver developers should only send combinations they do know about, and they should be able to get that write combination if the original company authorizes them to change the firmware, making them sign they wont redistribute that key.
The chance of virus/trojan makers or crackers breaking into systems using lax passwords is very high. If hardware can be damaged by writing a bad firmware, an outlook worm can destroy a great deal of hardware.
Well to change the flash on any device, it should reqiure a certain combination of bytes to be sent over, a combination that cannot be sent by chance or a bad distro. That combination would only be known to the firmware developers at that company.
Better yet put an internal jumper in the device so the user has to unscrew the device in the unlikely event of updating firmware which is, what, once in 3 years after the purchase and then never again?
WINE is very commonly used to run ONE key application among Linux applications, under one users permissions. If the key application communicates with the network, the network may be compromised but the Linux server itself will not.
This is much like running Win95 in vmware or bochs and infecting it with a virus. Another seperate win95 session in bochs or vmware will not be affected, nor Linux's other mail/X/services be affected.
I'm sure there are enough Outlook lookalikes for Linux, and rather than stretching yourself for outstanding feats of engineering in Linux, try training users a little. It works.
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Thats just what I had for my first camera. It has practically all the manual controls and you can find lenses for it many places. Doesnt need a battery except for that light-measuring thingy. The thing is quite rugged but the shutter speed is 1000 max, and I've made some nice pics off of it. Careful about the quality of the lens on any manual camera, generally the body is 40% and lens 60$ of the total cost. Skimping on the lens is not a good idea and can put off both a budding and a fully flowered fotographer
My arms ARE stronger, and I cant carry the thing around my neck while I'm cycling or even just hiking. I've handled nicer nikon canon etc cameras, but for some reason they seem like too much electronics and too many variables to keep in mind while composing a picture. If I had to get a new one, I'd probably go with a medium format camera with the exact featureset of the SRT201.
... to install that train between Toronto and Montreal. I for one dont believe Quebec's french heritage will be hurt by letting the English in every weekend.
They've been debating installing a train that will make travel between Toronto and Montreal 1 hour in duration.
I've been fascinated by Quebec and have been trying to learn french, but I can only visit on weekends and have to spend a night in the expensive motels there. Canada could become smaller that way, and trade can increase... if they can put their differences aside.
This enforces the idea that Opensource software users should more feverishly follow up on patches. Major exploits like the recent sendmail and ssh exploits are announced quickly and patches sent out in hours. Users of mission critical systems should not be afraid to download newer versions, compile and replace binaries frequently.
At least for these users theres hope. The MCSEs out there just have to hold on to their tapes.
What? You mean RedHat isnt already up there recognized as one of the standard CC OSes?
RedHat has been leaving home desktop users and free ISO downloaders in the dust trying to stay up there in this market. RedHat has been one of the forces standardizing Linux in its entireity. Application developers use RPMs despite its inferior structure, because it has become the standard for Linux. The biggest problem Linux is currently facing is the desktop home and office user market, and thats because of no standard GUIs, standard packaging system and other such. RedHat has now left that building, and Linux is once again in a bad need of a large company's backing to ferment on the desktop. Good Luck against Windows 2003.
I hope those certs dont just become anoter set of certs you can have after 3 weeks of exam crams. They should be able to seperate the boys from the men the way CCIE does.
I think we desperately need tough Linux certs to aim for, certs which will in time be respected enough to be of greater weight than the college degrees. Right now theres no standard way for a company to look for a highly skilled linux technician who can be creative, knowledgeable and original in solving problems. They just go for students from the best universities who have taken lots of java pascal and ada courses.
I agree. Back then the 6502 CPU was all they had, and there were so many possibilities with the code. Most of those possibilities have been exhaused with awesome games like Doom, Lemmings, Halflife and Giants.
Old games can really be reused. The can be compiled for cellphones PDAs or simply run through emulators. Sure beats the silly Java games made to complement a new platform and built under tight deadlines.
In the future, PDAs and cellphones and pocket consoles will be powerful enough to play DOOM3s and CounterStrikes. Will be sad to see crappy Java games on those.
Pretty simple. There will be NO new features in 2.4. All that energy will be spent on 2.6. Only bugfixes and patches etc will be done in 2.4 for those users that are running very critical servers and have already found all the features they need in 2.4.
Say you have a bunch of volunteer programmers, will you divide them between 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6? Both the programmers and the vast majority of users will want them working in 2.6. In fact if Linux wasnt so corporate-conscious, there should be no work done at all in 2.2 and 2.4.
Our Linux firewall was compromised a while ago. The attacker apparently used a samba exploit to break in (RedHat 9.0 with patches installed) and then tried a bunch of sendmail, NFS and samba exploits on other machines. Its not clear how he got root access but it seems he replaced some libraries with a few extra routines. After becoming root, he replaced all files in /bin and tried many exploits on the win2000 servers.
We were lucky not to have been hit hard, but the scare made us replace the Linux with an OpenBSD firewall with tightly configured ipf and snort. In the proceeding days, we logged attempted telnets and ssh from 3 different IPs 2 in korean primary schools, 1 from a chinese telecommunication company. (APNIC)
So the RedHat has been moved to be an internal server and we're careful about packet filtering now. Theres a finer level of permissions control all over the place and all services run as nonroot users, some in jails.
So why another fork really? Security? You got OpenBSD, a standard OS, relatively well-known in the security circles and affiliated with many major security projects. Many VPN clients are benchmarked against this OS. Stability? yahoo and ftp.cdrom.com use FreeBSD. Can you convince us you can beat that? Extentions? Linux and NetBSD have numerous ports. Linux is used on many mainframes and microcontrollers as standard OS.
So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?
I'm concerned because I'm an OS buff, have used Plan9 and Xenix and Linux on a dreamcast. I'm just not sure I along with so many other alternative OS users should take this one seriously beside the reasons you've listed. If it is just a pet project for yourself... thats cool. We'll just go back to the BSD.
There are things that can be outsourced to far away places. Portions of code can be programmed in a different country if strict specifications and quality control procedures are set out. Manufacturing of hardware has been the easiest part of IT to outsource... count the IBM motherboards out there that are made in Malaysia or Taiwan. And what IS the difference between Athlon chips fabricated in Malaysia or Germany?
Building all parts of a computer in USA will probably be like buying a baseline Pentium4 for $4000.
Support however should never be far from the point of service. This is like hiring a Network admin in India to support a small company in Toronto. Customer Support, beside being close to the engineers and design or manufacturing centres, should also be culturally and linguistically closer. I am personally surprised any company even attempted to outsource call centers to 11 time zones away.
I hope SMC follows suit.
Just take the Gardiner. You'll find plenty of reststops lined up.
...shoring up what they have now in order to maximize its usefulness...
I would shore up the usefulness of the IT infrastructure of my company rather than slap another requisition on the table for a brand new server. This is a Microsoft based network with the network and servers taking good pressure from the users. A few years ago I would've tried to push management for better servers and gigabit ethernet, but one should see such problems as challenges to their skills.
Smarter placement of switches, interswitch links moved to gigabit, tuning the MS SQL server, replacing the winproxy firewall with openbsd, getting a cisco 1700, moving services to makeshift servers, stuff like that will allow a company to wait another year before investing in cutting edge. It will also require some creativity and activity on behalf of the IT guys.
And heres my current list. I probably beat you to it all:
SQL database administrator and designer (MSSQL 2000, Postgresql, MySQL, expected oracle 9i in the near future)
Crystal Reports with Visual Basic API
Software development using Visual Basic, Trolltech's QT in Linux and Windows2000
Active Directory design and maintenance.
Firewall expert with experience in OpenBSD, Linux, WinProxy, Cisco 1700
Network administrator with active experience with snort, ethereal and tripwire.
Routing and Networking (OSPF experience required)
Hetrogenous network experience integrating Linux, Windows2000, Active Directory with Samba, OpenVMS with Linux and support Windows 3.11 as well.
MCSE, SAIR LCA, CCNA required
ERP system support, maintenance and developer using their custom API in C using borland tools for multiple operating systems with no testing time.
6+ years of system/network admin experience.
Pay: $12/per hour contract that can be terminated at any time, absolutely no vacation pay (will have to work overtime Christmas to pay rent).
Now with taxes taken, thats $9.5 per hour, which is around $6 USD per hour. I win!
What are you out of your mind? You must have a lot of time to do this, even with a gigabit ethernet connection.
I wonder how wine fared during the "Little Ice Age."
Not too well, but the Vodka business was booming.
I have been using QT in several places and know it better than wxWindows FLTK and others. So I'm not clear why this guy got modded down. He's right. QT makes C++ actually work the way it should, and the most complex apps compile fine under different compilers in different operating systems while remaining tiny, fast and stable.
Yes this guy is wrong about free. I just dont have the 6 grand CDN dollars to roll out commercial apps that I'd like with QT. Sucks.
Any vibrating electric signal emits radio waves. Radio waves at higher frequencies become light.
So its interesting to see the transistors gaining higher speed. Visible light is 384 to 769 THz, so the whole circuit spontaneously glows red and passes all rainbow colors to violet, then grows dark again as we speed up the circuit. This is probably the most efficient way to produce light anyway.
So we'll have blubs that will provide us with a wide spectrum of lights just as daylight and LCD monitors with insanely high resolutions and color bits
Not to mention CPUs that emit UV light at night.
No, what kills many people's freedom of speech are totalitarian governments such as China, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia where you can be jailed for speaking out on a street corner. Citizens of such countries have far more to worry about than being behind a NAT
My ISP Sympatico blocks port 25 and my college blocks inbound port 80 so noone in the college can run webservers. I guess I should not complain since some guy in China cant talk about democracy.
As for your "spirit of the Internet": what a whimsical invention. There is no such thing
There is such a technology which allows millions of people across many boundaries to connect and share information directly with little cost. That forms the basis of the spirit of the Internet, where people started sharing source code and developed Linux and slashcode. My little brother runs his own IRC server and shares data using P2P software. He also runs game servers and forms online communities with friends in 3 countries.
Yes the Internet was not orginally intended to be all this. And you know what? UNIX was not originally not intended as a serious OS either.
At a certain point in the middle of the last decade, everyone thought they would run out of IP addresses. Work was then put into routers and firewalls to bring to the masses the CIDR and NAT to stem the tide. Now on cisco routers you can do fancy port forwarding to use several servers behind one IP. All this work however could have been replaced by investing in ipv6. The fact that ipv6 is not being implemented means investment is being put into a scheme in which people will eventually run out of IP addresses, while there is a complete alternative available.
The single biggest damaging factor of ipv4 is the fact that you cant really run servers behind it. There are already ISPs in many countries that provide service from behind a NAT firewall. This kills many people's freedom of speech and the spirit of the Internet where everyone had their own servers and ran whatever they wanted.
The second damaging factor of the ipv4 is the control that IANA has. Both ICANN and IANA have been used politically and now we have many American ISPs churning out 4 IPs per person and 64 IPs per company, mostly going to waste while ISPs in some countrys like Pakistan's PakNET have 100,000 customers behind one IP none of whom can run their own servers.
ipv6 can fix all these problems in one fell swoop, simplify routing enormously and introduce IPSec and other security technologies.
With that freshly revealed philosophy of Bill, it makes me wonder what if the developers of BSD thought that? What if IOS developers at Cisco thought that? Or the people working on any router that works with the BGP or OSPF routing protocols that run the Internet?
Or what if the developers of Apache, Qmail, heck even the Linux kernel thought they will just shift the burden of network security to the vendors of some other software. Now imagine the catastrophe if Microsoft can legally block the development of BSD and Linux, and buy out Cisco.
The Aussi courts should really let the guy go. They should just release his picture, name, address, phone number, addresses of his relatives and friends, the name of his college, and they should track him and keep the public updated about his whereabouts. The ensuing witchhunt will demonstrate the public's true willingness to put in effort to get rid of spam.
If this was Saudi Arabia, they would tie him to a post and let anyone who has received more than 1000 emails in one day give this guy a bonk in the nose. I know I would pity him real soon.
Why does it seem ever since they brought out WINNT 3.5, they have been trying to sneak their way into UNIX style architectures. win9x crapped out so they needed a better structured kernel with proper permission and process control. They ever sneaked in the BSD TCPIP stack.
.NET to compete with J2EE, but really the COM and other RPC stuff in Windows are descended from Sun's RPC. Active Directory was brought in from other LDAP efforts, and using Microsoft's monopoly has been trampling other directory services like iPlanet and Novell AD.
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Funny now they're looking into CLI which will gradually seem more like bash since most of their CLI designers would be well-acquainted with UNIX, and their users too. As Microsoft will follow UNIX in innovation, the UNIX/Linux/BSD community will get greater credibility. Microsoft is undermining itself by not innovating fast enough.
Any combination can be sent by accident, so no matter what they pick, their chance of screwage remains the same
I really intended to say it should be a tough combination. Instead of sending a 'command' for writing to the chip consisting of one byte, it should send maybe a 8 byte preshared key. Sending 8 bytes by chance of a buggy software to exactly that port should be EXTREMELY rare.
can't exercise extra caution around that sequence because they don't know it
I still believe the firmware write command combination should be kept secret. Driver developers should only send combinations they do know about, and they should be able to get that write combination if the original company authorizes them to change the firmware, making them sign they wont redistribute that key.
The chance of virus/trojan makers or crackers breaking into systems using lax passwords is very high. If hardware can be damaged by writing a bad firmware, an outlook worm can destroy a great deal of hardware.
Well to change the flash on any device, it should reqiure a certain combination of bytes to be sent over, a combination that cannot be sent by chance or a bad distro. That combination would only be known to the firmware developers at that company.
Better yet put an internal jumper in the device so the user has to unscrew the device in the unlikely event of updating firmware which is, what, once in 3 years after the purchase and then never again?
WINE is very commonly used to run ONE key application among Linux applications, under one users permissions. If the key application communicates with the network, the network may be compromised but the Linux server itself will not.
This is much like running Win95 in vmware or bochs and infecting it with a virus. Another seperate win95 session in bochs or vmware will not be affected, nor Linux's other mail/X/services be affected.
I'm sure there are enough Outlook lookalikes for Linux, and rather than stretching yourself for outstanding feats of engineering in Linux, try training users a little. It works.