P.S. If someone sent their resume in plain text, it would hit the trash can
immediately independent of whether they had the highest qualifications or
not.
I don't know about that. I've applied to several jobs which stated that
they wanted resumes in plain text.
I was always relieved when
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 09:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds similar to the 'Print to file' option honored by most
apps under Windows/UNIX, the only real difference is that this option
prints to a PS file, not a PDF.
Is this Mac OS X by chance? I wonder if all they're doing
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, at 3:13am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> True. Next question: Do I want to work for one of them? :-)
>
> Good question. Can you pay the rent this month?
[insert long, pointless discussion on principles-vs-pragmatism here]
;-)
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| The opi
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:55, Derek Martin wrote:
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> > > > True. Next question: Do I want to work for one of them? :-)
> > >
> > > Good question. Can you pay the rent this month?
> >
>
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:50, Derek Martin wrote:
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> > > marketing-types who don't understand the difference between Microsoft Word
> > > and a hard disk drive. Basically, they are ignoran
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> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, at 9:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I completely concur with this sentiment but I would point out that
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2002, at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > (Look, I had zero problems [that I could tell, but I didn't look
> > closely] reading this in OpenOffice, but too me, it's just asinine, to
> > send out Linux conference info in .doc f
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:27, Hewitt Tech wrote:
> P.S. If someone sent their resume in plain text, it would hit the trash can
> immediately independent of whether they had the highest qualifications or
> not.
I hate to contradict you, but this, at least in some cases is patently
false. I inter
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, at 9:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I completely concur with this sentiment but I would point out that we live
> in an era when appearances are more important than substance to many
> people (present company excepted).
True. Next question: Do I want to work for one of the
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: Price, Erik
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greater New Hampshire LUG
> Subject: Re: PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference
> December 3-4
>
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:19:14 EST
"Price, Erik" said:
>I wish I had more time to learn how to use these tools, they sound
>much more versatile than what MacOS X offers. Still, it is very
>easy in MacOS X ... FWIU, the native display format for all documents
>is PDF so you when yo
they had the highest qualifications or
not.
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To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, at 10:
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: Erik Price
> Cc: Travis Roy; 'Greater New Hampshire LUG'
> Subject: PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4 ]
>
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> You can do this easily enough on UNIX with ghostscript package which
> included wrappers for ps2pdf, pdf2ps, etc.. Or, if you
> use TeX for your base formatting language (LaTeX, LyX, etc.) you can
> easily convert from [La]TeX to ps/pdf.
>
> So, with UNIX, you st
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, at 12:29am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But I thought that most computers shipped with Acrobat. I know it's not a
> default application in Windows distributions, but doesn't it come as one
> of the packaged free programs that computer mftr's ship with their boxes
> to pad their
In a message dated: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:29:50 EST
Erik Price said:
>On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
>
>> I don't see PDF being much better since windows users
>> will still have to go get something like Adobe Acrobat. On a Mac
>> however
>> PDF rocks since it's buil
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, at 10:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... I then only sent it out in RTF and everybody would ask for it in DOC,
> I'm assuming the same will
>
> RTF is usually more portable.
How about freaking ASCII text?
:-)
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| The opinions expressed
On 22 Nov 2002, at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Look, I had zero problems [that I could tell, but I didn't look
> closely] reading this in OpenOffice, but too me, it's just asinine, to
> send out Linux conference info in .doc format.
Keep in mind that the people who perpetrate this kin
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 01:24 AM, John Abreau wrote:
I could ultimately burn them
onto CDR before the tapes decayed away. However, they no longer have
any
equipment for reel tapes.
In another twenty years you'll be doing this again, hoping someone has
the means to read a legacy op
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
I don't see PDF being much better since windows users
will still have to go get something like Adobe Acrobat. On a Mac
however
PDF rocks since it's built in.
Yes, this is how I was able to generate the PDF without purchasing
Distil
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"Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not sure if our system could read it. I'll ask and get back to you.
> Do you know how they were saved? The format?
Yes, I wrote them myself, back when I was yo
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> Subject: Re: mag reel tape (was Re: Boston Linux Conference
> December 3-4)
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>
>
>
> > That reminds me, a while back when I was digging through
> > my storage room, I ran across a few old 9-track tapes
>
> Hey, yeah!
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> "Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> That reminds me, a while back when I was digging through
> my storage room, I ran across a few old 9-track tapes
Hey, yeah! Me, too - I'd love to get some bits off my
old 9-tracks while it's still possible, so if somebody
responds to Mr. Abreau please keep me in mind, too, though
I'm about to
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> two biggest customers still send us lists on 1/2" mag reel tape. Of
> course we do all our work on very old AS/400 (we're getting a new one
> next week). Actually,
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Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My apologies to all.
>
> *I* got an error back from the mailing list software indicating that the
> message was not sent because it was too large. Clearly it sent
"Travis Roy" said:
>Open/StarOffice still have issues with .doc format. I did my resume in
>OpenOffice and sent it out to some people only to get it back and find
>out that the bullet came out wacky in Word (they were bigger and all had
>the number 10 in the bullet, very lame looking). I then only
> When openoffice saves as .doc, you won't have all that hidden data in
> the file. I bet abiword does this too. If it's not in the native
> format, it won't get saved. I hope any lawyer I word with a) doesn't
> give out electronic copies of its files and b) doesn't use word.
Open/StarOffice
"Price, Erik" said:
>I hear you. I don't like .DOC either, and when I wrote my resume
>a few months ago, I distributed it as PDF on principle. (Also so
>that people don't try to examine the file's contents for "deleted"
When openoffice saves as .doc, you won't have all that hidden data in
the
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> From: "Bruce Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "GNHLUG Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:56 PM
> Subject: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4
> The stupidity of a Linux organization sending out .doc format stuff is
I can forgive the .doc format too: I just won't look at it.
What I can't forgive is a 2MB posting, for any reason. It
sure ties up the phone line for a long time, especially for something
I'm going to trash. (Besides, some interaction of fetchmail, mv, and
possibly sendmail doing
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From: "Bruce Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GNHLUG Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4
> This is shaping up to be a fairly important conference
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Iadonisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: Greater New Hampshire LUG
> Subject: Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4
>
>
> (Look, I had zero problems [that I could tell, but
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 22:56, Bruce Dawson wrote:
[snip]
> Also, sorry for the .doc formats, but if I had to convert those, then
> this would have gone out well *after* the event!
I think we can forgive you, Bruce, but I really think we oughta slap
around Jupitermedia a bit for putting out crap
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