RE: Career advice--which application to focus on: FM or Word?
Hi, Definitely focus on the position and the work. The tools change all the time and learning a particular bit of software is the easy part. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Kelsall Sent: 11 May 2006 16:40 To: Framers@frameusers.com Subject: Career advice--which application to focus on: FM or Word? Hello everyone, I would like some advice from anyone who has worked in the technical writing field for more than 3 years. My question is this: If you knew someone who was looking to enter the technical writing field at this time, would you advise them to seek out positions where they would be using FrameMaker, or would you tell them not to worry so much on which application would be used, but instead focus on the position and the work itself? The reason I ask is that on various listservs I subscribe to, it seems that most people are big FM advocates and are not too fond of Word. I've spent the last month trying to learn the basics of FM, and I can see why people choose FM over Word when it comes to serious technical writing. Granted, there is a steep learning curve, but it *is* a lot more versatile than Word. I'm moving away from a 17 year career as a technician and engineer in the telecom field and I want to make sure my first step into technical writing isn't a misstep. As a quick note, I have given the career change quite a bit of thought, and went as far as completing a technical writing program at Duke. Any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks, Andy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.levitt%40betfai r.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair use SkyScan from MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Career advice--which application to focus on: FM or Word?
Hi, Definitely focus on the "position and the work". The tools change all the time and learning a particular bit of software is the easy part. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Kelsall Sent: 11 May 2006 16:40 To: Framers at frameusers.com Subject: Career advice--which application to focus on: FM or Word? Hello everyone, I would like some advice from anyone who has worked in the technical writing field for more than 3 years. My question is this: If you knew someone who was looking to enter the technical writing field at this time, would you advise them to seek out positions where they would be using FrameMaker, or would you tell them not to worry so much on which application would be used, but instead focus on the position and the work itself? The reason I ask is that on various listservs I subscribe to, it seems that most people are big FM advocates and are not too fond of Word. I've spent the last month trying to learn the basics of FM, and I can see why people choose FM over Word when it comes to serious technical writing. Granted, there is a steep learning curve, but it *is* a lot more versatile than Word. I'm moving away from a 17 year career as a technician and engineer in the telecom field and I want to make sure my first step into technical writing isn't a misstep. As a quick note, I have given the career change quite a bit of thought, and went as far as completing a technical writing program at Duke. Any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks, Andy ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as mark.levitt at betfair.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.levitt%40betfai r.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair use SkyScan from MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses.
add Framers list to gmane.org?
John, It is highly unlikely you would have any success in suing for copyright infringement over an archive of a message you sent to a public mailing list. As the author of a text, you have certain rights regarding control over who can make copies, transcribe, etc. However copyright is not an absolute. There are circumstances in which someone can copy a text without the permission of the rights holder. At a glance, the two I can think of off the top of my head are fair use/fair dealing and implied license. First, people have a right to use a text under the fair use doctrine. There is no hard and fast rule over what constitutes fair use, but making an archival copy for providing access to others seems to fall within fair use. Google just won a case where they were being sued for copyright infringement over their archiving of web pages. They are a commercial company, they were archiving and displaying the entire page, not just a portion, and they still won on fair use grounds. Second, if you publish a text on a website, you retain the copyright, but when a person (in the use of a browser) requests that text and your web site sends it to them, you are, legally, granting an implied license to that person to make a copy of the text in order to display it on their screen (as making a copy is the only way for the browser to function). Similarly this is public mailing list. When you send a text to the mailing list, you are implicitly commanding that the text be copied and distributed to everyone on the list. Those copies are further copied into individual mailboxes, backup tapes, archives, etc. There is, along with that command, an implied licence for those copies to be made. Otherwise, you could send an e-mail to the list and then sue the list owner for copyright infringement for every copy of your message that was sent out. In short, RIAA and MPAA propaganda to the contrary, you as copyright holder don't have an absolute say over what happens to your text. All that being said, I'm not making a moral or ethical argument about this. I agree it might be good to respect the *wishes* of the list members about where their e-mails are archived, but that's not the same thing as having a *right* to prevent it. http://www.eff.org/IP/blake_v_google/google_nevada_order.pdf -- Mark > -Original Message- > From: > framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair.com at lists.frameuse > rs.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers > Sent: 26 January 2006 17:43 > To: John Posada > Cc: Framers List > Subject: Re: add Framers list to gmane.org? > > John Posada wrote: > >I could get an email from > > someone at your company asking for more information. > > > > If that happens, I WILL be contacting your legal department on > > copyright infringement and I HAVE retained the posts on > this thread as > > proof that I don't approve of my posts being used. > > > > Of course, you could sneak around the wishes that anyone > else may have > > by remembering to just not use my post but ignore the > wishes of anyone > > else, whether they've participated in thread or not. > > > > I don't think anyone else who practices copyright violation > and gets > > caught expected to get caught either. > > John, > > If you are of such strong opinion that simply publishing a > URL (which is nothing more than an address) constitutes > copyright violation, why did you ask us all to do it for you? > ( http://tinyurl.com/8dn69 ) Do you also plan to threaten > legal action against Google, Yahoo, and all the other search > engines that publish links to your postings in response to > keyword searches? > > Or have you just missed Jakob's point altogether, that he is > not reproducing a single word of your copyright-protected > public postings but is simply telling others that they exist > and pointing to their location? > > I do not understand your reaction. > > -- > Stuart Rogers > Technical Communicator > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > Toronto, ON, Canada > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > srogers at phoenix-geophysics dot com > > "Please reinstall the application you want to remove." > --Microsoft Windows 'unInstall Specialist' > > Get Firefox! > http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5 > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as mark.levitt at betfair.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.levit > t%40betfair.com > > Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > __ > __ > In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair use SkyScan from > MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. > >
add Framers list to gmane.org?
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 at yahoo.com] > This is probably all true and just a small maybe its not. > However, I'll bet that Jakob's employers wouldn't want to be > the subject of finding out if it is or not and should his > corporate attorney receive correspondence from me, they'll > going to make Jakob question how important the information in > that post really was. Yes, you can bully him into doing what you want by threatening them with some sort of harm. That's usually called extortion...
RE: Opening an old .WDB file
Mary, This is a Microsoft Works 4.0 database file. There are commercial tools that claim to be able to convert them to Excel: http://www.rl-software.com/converter/wks-wdb-to-excel.htm I have no experience with this tool or company. If you just need the text and you don't want to spend any money, you might try using a program called strings. There is a Windows version here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Strings.html Strings is a command-line utility that reads a binary file and displays any embedded text contained in the file. It's likely that the Works database has the actual data as simple text. Strings won't display the structure or headings, but it might show you the text. Cheers, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] rs.com] On Behalf Of Mary Sheahan Sent: 22 November 2005 17:56 To: framers@frameusers.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Opening an old .WDB file If you have software that can open an old Microsoft .WDB file (circa 2000), would you please contact me off-list? We no longer have the software on any of our PCs, and there's some document history information that we want to retain. Even a text-dump would suffice. Thanks, Mary __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.levit t%40betfair.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. __ __ In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair use SkyScan from MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. __ __ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Opening an old .WDB file
Mary, This is a Microsoft Works 4.0 database file. There are commercial tools that claim to be able to convert them to Excel: http://www.rl-software.com/converter/wks-wdb-to-excel.htm I have no experience with this tool or company. If you just need the text and you don't want to spend any money, you might try using a program called "strings". There is a Windows version here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Strings.html Strings is a command-line utility that reads a binary file and displays any embedded text contained in the file. It's likely that the Works database has the actual data as simple text. Strings won't display the structure or headings, but it might show you the text. Cheers, Mark > -Original Message- > From: > framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+mark.levitt=betfair.com at lists.frameuse > rs.com] On Behalf Of Mary Sheahan > Sent: 22 November 2005 17:56 > To: framers at frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com > Subject: OT: Opening an old .WDB file > > If you have software that can open an old Microsoft .WDB file > (circa 2000), would you please contact me off-list? We no > longer have the software on any of our PCs, and there's some > document history information that we want to retain. Even a > text-dump would suffice. > > Thanks, > Mary > > > > > __ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as mark.levitt at betfair.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mark.levit > t%40betfair.com > > Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > __ > __ > In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair use SkyScan from > MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. > > __ > __ >
