From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:08:57 -0400
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 17:22:22 -0400
From: Joe Redshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NH Jobs List] Job:
If you are interested, please e-mail me a formal resume attached to
a Word Document and then we can set up a time to speak. If you know
Is this a joke? Is this solicitation meant seriously?
By Word Document they usually mean something I can open in Word,
that's formatted, and I can run my
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks.
If someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as OpenOffice.org.
For companies, it does not make sense to spend money on proprietary software,
especially when free replacements are already available.
What bothers me about this is...
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Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope he didn't subscribe our jobs list to nhjobslist.com! (I guess
we'll find out if he did).
No, he did not.
I simply manually forwarded this mail to the gnhlug-jobs list, because
I genuinely thought that somebody subscribed to this list might find
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 05:29 -0700, Lori Nagel wrote:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If someone
can use Word, they can use free replacements such as OpenOffice.org.
For companies, it does not make sense to spend money on proprietary
software, especially when free
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope he didn't subscribe our jobs list to nhjobslist.com! (I guess
we'll find out if he did).
No, he did not.
I simply manually forwarded this mail to the gnhlug-jobs list, because
I genuinely thought that somebody
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
I think you are free to ignore those ads, but I would hate to block a
potential job for a FOSS person just because the format requested is not
open. I think that choice should be up to the potential applicant.
I will also note that OO both reads and writes .doc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking for help they are indeed. For starters, someone should
(politely, if necessary) inform Mr. R[] that Linux is not a
Windows program...
I volunteer *you* and the other poster who suggested that we should
disallow job postings that asked for resumes in
Let me add my own 2 cents re comparing FOSS and MS software:
I personally have been using linux on and off since the mid 1990's when I
started attending GNHLUG then MonadLUG meetings 1995-2002 or so...
I now live in western NY near Rochester NY now, after several years spent
moving from
Are you speaking from theory, or experience?
I've got a good proportion of our company on Mac's now (not linux,
but it illustrates a point). While the transitions have been fairly
painless, even with Office for Mac it is a less than ideal process.
People are used to doing things a certain
Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If
someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as
OpenOffice.org. For companies, it does not make sense to spend
money on proprietary software, especially when free
On Jun 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If
someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as
OpenOffice.org. For companies, it does not make sense to spend
money on
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
However, many people use computers to get a job done, and they have
spent 15 or 20 *years* learning a particular environment. It makes
even *less* sense for them to throw out that 15 or 20 years of
Why does their ignorance of file formats constiture them as being a
goof? Can you explain the difference between the EFA and the MSCI
EAFE ? If not, does that make you a goof? Just because someone is
ignorant of something is not a license to deride them or call them
names. Please think
At 9:13 AM -0400 6/29/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
I will also note that OO both reads and writes .doc format.
Indeed, it reads .doc format a heck of a lot better than it reads
.rtf format generated by Word.
--Ray
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Raymond Cote
Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
PO Box 458 ~ Peterborough, NH
On 6/29/07, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does their ignorance of file formats constiture them as being a
goof? Can you explain the difference between the EFA and the MSCI
EAFE ? If not, does that make you a goof? Just because someone is
ignorant of something is not a
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both
looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what
they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible.
These people, in my opinion, are goofs. You talk to
Paul Lussier wrote:
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both
looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what
they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible.
These people, in my opinion, are
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 17:22:22 -0400
From: Joe Redshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NH Jobs List] Job: Network/Database Administrator - Manchester
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:21:25 -
If you are interested, please e-mail me a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 17:22:22 -0400
From: Joe Redshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NH Jobs List] Job: Network/Database Administrator - Manchester
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:21:25 -
If you are
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