Use the latest OO, and "Our Sales Quotes to customers which needed to look their best, looked like shit when opened by their versions of Word" won't be an issue, because you can send them PDFs.
Their Word won't open them, but IE will render and print them perfectly.
If they're really anal, just do what I do, and use RTF. It was good enough only ten years back, so why not now?
Excel is a different matter. I've never managed to make an OO sheet that won't open in Excel, but the reverse is very common.
If M$ opened up their pissy formats, maybe the world would be a better place.
"I say if you save a document file these days ( without OLE in it, etc) to anything other than HTML/XML you're doing disservice to the whole standardization movement thing that's going on."
I always send my stuff in RTF, unless someone insists on some new-fangled shit...
Their adverts for 9-inch dicks make the average American feel inadequate by 50%!
Their 419 scams are designed to exploit American stupidity!
Damn - their natural Viagra doesn't even work! Why, I jumped on Mrs Ashcroft the other night, after a whole packet of herbal Viagra, and never even touched the sides!
In 3 years, we've had one unplanned downtime due to software, and that was an MS hotfix that hosed our main server.
The secret - no file and print. All we're runnung is our own handrolled server processes, and a carefully set up IIS, with SQL Server running on a non-exposed server at the back end.
It's not quite 5 nines, but it's damn close to 4.
If you keep the users away from the MS stuff, it's actually not a bad application server.
'Running free' in these barns is akin to how sardines get to run free in the tin.
I live in the UK, and rarely eat chicken, because I won't eat it unless it's been organically reared out in the open air.
Organic chicken is a bitch to find in the UK, but luckily the butcher I use for beef, lamb and pork happens to have his own organic farm, so I don't go hungry.
If you ever see one of these chicken barns, you'll see what I mean.
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Silly me.
RTF is, IMHO, the best thing since SGML.
In fact, it used t obe better, 'cause it was the way to write help files with links in the old days.
Their Word won't open them, but IE will render and print them perfectly.
If they're really anal, just do what I do, and use RTF. It was good enough only ten years back, so why not now?
Excel is a different matter. I've never managed to make an OO sheet that won't open in Excel, but the reverse is very common.
If M$ opened up their pissy formats, maybe the world would be a better place.
I always send my stuff in RTF, unless someone insists on some new-fangled shit...
IMHO, it's better that Apple settles, thwn Open Group can take $110K out of SCO's legal fund, just to weaken the bastids further.
Their porn saps American manhood!
Their adverts for 9-inch dicks make the average American feel inadequate by 50%!
Their 419 scams are designed to exploit American stupidity!
Damn - their natural Viagra doesn't even work! Why, I jumped on Mrs Ashcroft the other night, after a whole packet of herbal Viagra, and never even touched the sides!
They're only Chinese, but I'm sure they've got families.
Ashcroft AntiAuthoritarian
Bush AntiUntruth
Cheney AntiCorruption
Margaret Thatcher saved the UK economy in much the same way that Tony Blair is saving the Iraqi economy.
It's still a simple OTP encryption - it's just that they'll know if anyone's intercepted some of the key on the way.
Someone finds a hole.
They'd like us to sit on our arses while they take their time fixing it.
Meanwhile, some bad ass mofo finds the same hole, and exploits it.
It's the threat of imminent disclosure that makes the vendors fix their fucked-up software - to delay is merely to invite problems.
I repeat - fuck 'em.
But then AI^Hnaeas wouldn't fit as well.
I'm sure she'll do well enough out of rewriting press releases, though - or do analysts actually ever do proper research?
Any fool knows that you spell faking with a 'K', not a 'C' as you have obviously done by accident.
Tintin?
Seriously though, if she can read, she can compare two samples of source.
She sure seems to have a wide range of experience in analystism, though...
the complaint and exhibits are linked to from the page you mention, on the RHS.
The raw links are:
the complaint
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Exhibit D
Exhibit E
HTH.
It's not something any sane person would sign.
Bruce: Yeah, Bruce - how about this bonzer cluster of Xeons over here?
Bruce: Nah - it'll never work - it's only 1.2 teraflops, and the cooling system sucks.
Bruce: Yeah - you're right there, mate - we'd better go with the Cray again. All that Freon sure keeps the tinnies cool.
Bruce: Now that's what I call a sheepacomputer.
In 3 years, we've had one unplanned downtime due to software, and that was an MS hotfix that hosed our main server.
The secret - no file and print. All we're runnung is our own handrolled server processes, and a carefully set up IIS, with SQL Server running on a non-exposed server at the back end.
It's not quite 5 nines, but it's damn close to 4.
If you keep the users away from the MS stuff, it's actually not a bad application server.
I live in the UK, and rarely eat chicken, because I won't eat it unless it's been organically reared out in the open air.
Organic chicken is a bitch to find in the UK, but luckily the butcher I use for beef, lamb and pork happens to have his own organic farm, so I don't go hungry.
If you ever see one of these chicken barns, you'll see what I mean.
You're exactly right - this sort of agriculture is very good for making viruses cross species barriers.
It's funny, insightful and informative all at once.
As soon as the early investors figure the stock has moved enough, they'll bail out again.
Besides, what else are they to do with all the cash they pulled out of Big Blue after the SEC investigation story?