https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65741
--- Comment #4 from Nick <[email protected]> --- Hi Ken; basically I had an item that had some printing in very light colors. In MS Word 2003, I would simply click on Tools, colors, etc and select a font color and that was it. In prepping to switch to a Linux distro, I deleted Word for LO to get a feel foe a change and was pleasantly surprised. I still have the original MS CD, but doubt I will ever use it again, I am disenchanted with M$. This from a retired engineer who started with a thing called FORTRAN IV back in 1968- punch cards and that sort of stuff. Computers were so expensive my company rented time (thank god somebody else did the punch cards). My first machine was an Apple, the architecture IBM Engineers wanted with Motorola designing a superior chip-set compared to Intel. However, when the New YORK IBM team visited Jobs in California, he was cocky, the great IBM wanting to use his program. He had his feet crossed on his desk, wore a light pastel open collared shirt, in contrast to the black suit and white shirt and tie of the top IBM execs; the rest is history. I interviewed with IBM in the mid 1960's. Hard to believe, but Watson had every facet of their lives regimented. But he paid well, and attracted those types. Imagine, they had their own housing developments, swimming pools, club houses and their own large modern airport and planes. All this in the middle of Fishkill - Poughkeepsie farmland. They were having problems with a printer design, with a whole department of engineers, something I would knock out in weeks with a lesser staff and equipment. I wore a sportcoat with white shirt and conservative tie and got a side remark that they all wore black suits. No match; sometimes I regret that decision, but then again I would have missed working on cutting edge aerospace top secret equipment; so, who knows.... I migrated to PC about the late 1960's and watched MS's machinations to bleed its customers, with software designed for profit first, even though it was buggy and prone to malware. But for specialized software, it was the only game in town. I sound like a disgruntled old man, but I wonder where the technology would be today if Steve was a little less cocky. Enough B.S. Back to the present. I'd have to locate the file, send a screen-shot, and for what? To update a soon to be defunct program? I'm resigned to XP's demise. The king is dead! Long live the new king! Ken, you are living in a bold new computing era. I wish you well! I moved from electron tubes to transistors to integrated circuits to complete applications on a tiny chip. Nothing compared to what is to come. I was down in Houston Texas in the world's then biggest solid state manufacturing company, Texas Instruments, the week Kennedy was shot. What a facility. What talent. What a fiasco- Kennedy's own Secret Service told him it was too dangerous to go there. Another too long story. Peace. Again, thanx much, and good luck in your endeavors. n. Please note: message attached From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug 65741] : Missing Icon Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:24:56 +0000 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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