Personally I'd say it's more about perception of value, I've seen several contracts approved by management because they check all the boxes and are closer to what the expected budget is, instead of being technically competant and providing what they actually need. Sadly most of the companies that won these contracts were Microsoft shops.
This is pretty much standard for a lot of government organisations, or atleast I've seen it many times myself.
I don't know how to explain it, but a lot of the people I've seen create websites for government or local authority branches are business types lacking on the technical side. Basically the person who the project manager likes most, regardless of reviewing their technical ability on previous sites other than quickly browsing through one or two and going "ohh, thats nice isnt it!".
On one occasion I've seen a company win the contract simply because the paper they sent to the project manager sparkled slightly in the light and was followed up by a long phone call. Their websites were utter trash, but they were very good at making money.
Ok so we've all been saying... this year is time for Linux on the desktop, maybe we're finally here.
A combination of Windows Vista flunking and not meeting the needs of consumers (compared to Windows XP), the business requirement to bring down prices (no Windows tax) so their range of laptops can be more competitive with in the market their targeting (basically small businesses and students) means that Linux is starting to become a possibility, considering Ubuntu is often said to be easier to use than Windows XP.
Now, can you seriously consider hardware vendors like Lenovo pushing laptops with Vista pre-installed when they know battery life descreased and the minimum required specs will be seriously increased, driving up the base cost of the machine.
Yeah, I can see where these people are coming from, it's a pure business decision with the side effect of getting the Linux geeks on your side.
Ok, so he was sniffing TCP/IP packets for HTTP cookies in unencrypted traffic passing over the same wireless network as him, maybe some nifty tools there but the idea is not new at all.
I went through all the Microsoft shared source licenses months ago, seeing if they could be useful to any projects of mine, or even what sort of problems I'd likely encounter. The only thing which comes close to being an open-source license is the Ms-CL (Microsoft Community License), the least restrictive of the three.
My interpretation was that it started off as the BSD license, then had clauses added for patent claims and the "shared source, all your copyright belong to us" stuff and basically locking the source code to the Ms-CL license forever.
This is not open-source, it's an open-source license for people who just don't get what open-source is about, basically a "we want you to work for free, then we can sell your stuff" license.
The OSI people know this already, but like anything involving lawyers it needs to be handled carefully. I don't however see Microsoft modifying the license just to be OSI approved.
With well chosen resource limits you don't care about vservers stepping on each others toes, what I'm worried about is people running these machines and not patching them or taking any sort of approach to security other than: "It's running Linux, it must be secure".
Now, how long do you expect it to take for them to realize their VPS has been compromised by spammers/hackers/scriptkiddies etc.? Probably much longer than the hosting company because their actively looking out for these things.
With virtualization like linux vserver, xen, vmware etc. there are two main reasons to why people are using it.
1) Consolidation
2) "Containerization" or whatever their calling it today.
The company that I work for are using multiple virtual servers to be able to keep applications separate and be able to migrate them from machine to machine easier which is a common use for vmware (e.g. the appliance trend). So you're trading performance and memory usage for security and robustness/redundancy.
Across maybe 100-200 servers, the number of vservers we have is astonishing (probably around 1200 to 1500, which is a bit of a nightmare to maintain) which are hosting customer applications, when an application starts to use more resources the vserver is moved over to a machine with less servers on it, and gradually to it's own server, which in the long run saves money & downtime.
The other major industry using them is the hosting industry, allowing customers a greater amount of personalization rather than the one-size-fits-all cpanel hosting companies. This is the real industry where consolodation has increased, biting into the hardware markets possible sales because thousands of customers are now leasing shared resources, instead of leasing actual hardware.
Either way, the number of new machines (virtual) machines and ip addresses, all managed by different people is becoming a management nightmare. Now everybody can afford a virtual dedicated server on the internet regardless of their technical skills which often ends up as a bad buy (lack of memory and resource constraints compared to shared hosting on a well maintained server).
"When Watchfire first alerted Microsoft's security response team to what Afek and Sharabani had found, they were met with skepticism, and understandably so, Allan said. The company had known since 2005 about the IIS bug that caused the crash, but it was considered a simple denial-of-service problem and not remotely exploitable."
Worded a little ambiguously, but I presume it's Microsoft their talking about... How can a bug like this get through the QA process since 2005 and multiple product versions without getting fixed?
They bearly worked and I understood nothing about the internals, but VCL is definately a prime example that this has been done many times before and is nothing new.
Take a look at ID software's Quake and Doom series. Once the game stops being mainstream the engine is released under the GPL license but the game content (e.g. the game and the reason for purchasing it) is still proprietary and commercial.
So you get several approaches from it, the engine continues to be maintained (see FuhQuake and QuakeForge) for people still playing the original game and it's mods, but commercial games can still be created using the engine as a pre-developed platform allowing developers to focus more on creating good content and playable games instead of splarting hundereds of thousands on commercial development (e.g. the equivilent of licensing the game engine from ID software directly, but it's open-source).
When game engines become open-source, I've seen nothing but benifits in all cases, with the exception that cheating becomes much easier (which in tight knit gaming communities isn't a problem).
Well, those cars must have previously been known by the congestion charging system unless they were driven in at night from outside of London and have never previously been in London.
Even then, speeding tickets? Parking tickets? license registration? MOT?
It's almost impossible for a car to stay anonymous when in the UK and especially in London, but attaching this car to a terrorist or terrorist suspect is something which needs active human integration, which is why the police are being given access to the network.
90% of the time, the police have nothing to do with instigating investigations against terrorist threads, these come from MI5 and MI6.
So the question comes back, why are the police being given access to this network when the majority of the crimes they have to deal with are every day things, like tracking bail absconders?
Though if you were taking the paranoid approach you'd consider, why haven't MI5/MI6 already got access to the network for this sort of thing? Or if they did, would we ever know about it?
Basically, privacy is a given human right, regardless of the individual; whether this is going to be used only for tracking "criminals" I've seen many times the re-definition of criminial which fits myself in other countries (remember when it was illegal to be homosexual?).
Even though I don't like the congestion charging cameras, they should be used only for the purpose that was approved of. I'm just wondering is it too late for 'citizens' to call a vote to appeal this decision, or will the sheep approve it even if we did?
Yes, but what happens when somebody picks this up at their friends house on their macbook, then goes to starbucks and reads some e-mail via the in-store wireless connection, then goes to work (in an Apple shop or whatever).
I'm definately not saying that this is as aggressively populating as some of the bigger windows worms, but all you need are some high-profile cases (an Apple store, a few senators/MPs etc.) and it'll be enough cannon fodder for a whole line of "Anti Virus" products for the Mac.
One of the main radio stations I listen to in the UK has a no-pirating policy:
Everything's streamed at 96kbps which is good enough quality to listen to.
There are no track names on the stream like other radio stations (this would be very tedious to do anyway, because it's all mixed live from vinyl)
If a record hasn't been released yet, the DJ's obliged to talk all over it or (after a few beers) try and sing along to stop people ripping it.
The DJs randomly talk over it anyway.
Most of the DJs are producers too, and will happily give you a preview copy if you ask nicely enough (or if you DJ professionally or semi-professionally).
All the shows are archived at 128kbit or higher mp3 anyway.
Oh, and nobody plays mafia^WRIAA music unless it's part of a mashup, in which case it's the least of their problems.
In such a niche area like this, there's hardly any piracy; the problems only start when you're playing music "owned" by large corporations or copyright federations, which I think is very damaging to the music industry.
Internet radio, and to some extent some of the BBC 'alternative' radio stations and shows (John Peel's show for example) are taking it's place.
Of the radio stations I listen to, there isn't a 24 hour schedule so whoever's broadcasting late at night during weekdays will probably just stick on random albums when they need to do other things (collect kids, make dinner or whatever) or just play random interesting tracks for the first 30 minutes of their show. Or in the case of John peel, completely random things all the time.
Commercialism of radio has seriously diluted the quality of music generally being played, and if anything is keeping people ignorant to other types of music.
The ASDA brand of super markets (Walmart owned) has had these for ages at the end of the walkways & store carparks.
It's amazing how many older people I've seen caught out by this because they need assistance to get their shopping to their car or to the bus. A few times I've seen ASDA attendants dragging the locked trolley for them instead of waiting 5 minutes to get somewbody out to unlock it.
In theory it works, in practice people just carry the trolley over fences to stop it being locked up while people with disabilities or frail people end up being given a hard time.
You're confusing the GPL and LGPL licenses with each other.
If you use GPL code in your project, all your other code must be licensed under the GPL as it's now a derivative of the GPL code.
If you use LGPL code in your project, you do not have to license your code under the LGPL as long as it's kept entirely separately (e.g. a library, and not built-in).
Either way, if you modify GPL or LGPL code or create a derivative product somehow, you must redisturbute the LGPL/GPL licensed parts with any changes you've made.
However - neither Windows XP 32-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit are free, which means you'd have to go out and splart $100+ for an operating system just so you can access your iPhone from iTunes..
Although I don't know anybody that would be mad enough to pay for a downgrade:)
How will this effect VoIP/ISTP companies in other countries than the USA, for example, would making VoIP calls through a UK provider to the USA with a UK number as the caller id be considered caller ID spoofing?
I'm getting pretty worried about this because our company terminates a huge number of calls to the states, and although we go through a verification process to check the customer has the right to use the callerid you can never be entirely sure if you're going to get caught out somewhere!
Also, does anybody know where I can get the full text of this bill? It doesnt seem to be available on the website (so don't blame me for not RTFA ok).
With Sun's slow improvements in the multi-core arena (the T1 & T2 systems) and their low power requirements their probably in for a good run at the top 10-20 spots on the Top 500 list.
Consider 500 top-end T2 systems hooked up to some very fast switching hardware and you're performance per wattage ratio are going to be very persuasive to those running big data centers, although with the T1 systems the only thing which stopped us adopting them was the shared FPU (telephony codec transcoding sucks on them).
Could we see suns equivalent of IBM's BlueGene system appearing next year? I definitely think so:)
Sorry?
I am protesting, I am sending letters to my local MP, I did vote but not for Labor.
Am I pissed off about it... yes! "Popular Polititions" in general are lying bastards by nature, and I feel hopeless, just like many other people, as to what can be done to change it.
Their popular because they pretend to go with the majority, but separately further their own goals regardless.
Of the radio stations I listen to, most are very niche internet radio stations run by DJs and the associated community. Out of maybe 100 djs, a good 20-30% of them actually produce their own tracks and use it as a form of marketing for themselfs.
We're talking very very small record labels here, with a handful of releases a jear catering for DJs. This is so highly in contrast with what the big labels are doing that I really don't think they have enough perspective to suggest that this should be adopted on a wider scale.
But as you mention, this only applies to artists signed to big-name labels rather than us little folks... but I've not heard many internet radio stations playing artists signed to labels which are members of the RIAA etc. mainly because it's all mass marketed crap.
The only people I can see being hit by this are the stations which play lesser known pop from the 60s through to the 80s, who's copyright is still held by the big record labels but is no longer available in stores or on commercial radio.
Are these machines 64bit too? It'd be nice bragging rights: I've got Linux/Windows running on a C64!
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When I was in primary school (say about the age of 8 or 9) somebody tried practicing a flying ninja judo super kick on me (yeah man), so I went flying backwards and nearly cracked my skull on a box behind me.
So.. standing there, crying, blood spurting out of my head... and only like a month before the school had enforced a policy that none of the teachers could apply bandages or provide medical aid unless they'd gone through the right training course (which only one or two had done) and can't phone an ambulance without the parents permission.
At the time all the parents thought it was absolutely stupid.. sure kids get hurt, scape knees, fall over & bash teeth... but the people who are _legally_ supposed to be supervising us weren't allowed to do anything.
In the end I had to go and sit down in the staff room with a towel wrapped around my head so I didn't drip everwhere until my dad could get away from work, it took about 30 minutes... then another 30 minutes waiting in triage to be seen.
It's bullshit, and it's only getting worse... I fear within 5 years the UK will have schools doing similar things, which is just degredating society.
Had it been more serious I could've ended up with brain damage because of these stupid policies.
Oh really? I'm going through the whole recruitment process again at the moment and it's a pain in the ass.
I make a specific point to send my documents as.pdf rather than whatever editor-specific file format I created it in for some of the reasons the parent outlined, only to have 60-70% of the companies e-mail me back asking for a.doc version.
What the fuck! It's created using managed XML, XSL and html2ps/ps2pdf, somebody show me a magic 'Convert to useless Microsoft format' program and I'll use it, but for now I'm going to use technology that's key to the industry I work in to show off my resume.
Not just that, but only a few people have actually been slapped by a bit of intuition and asked for a HTML copy, or just copied and pasted text from the PDF into their recruiting application.. the rest just send e-mails back and forth until they give up and say I cant use their company out of frustration.
We really _do_ need Microsoft Office, because that's all those office monkeys know, I thought we standardized on PS (and later PDF) a long time ago, and now their trying to tell me different just because the completed their 'Touch Typing for Beginners' course with flying colours.
Give me a break, use your keyboard to type it in, do your bloody job, and stop bitching when you realize your workflow is too inflexible to handle non-microsoft junkies.
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Personally I'd say it's more about perception of value, I've seen several contracts approved by management because they check all the boxes and are closer to what the expected budget is, instead of being technically competant and providing what they actually need. Sadly most of the companies that won these contracts were Microsoft shops.
This is pretty much standard for a lot of government organisations, or atleast I've seen it many times myself.
:)
I don't know how to explain it, but a lot of the people I've seen create websites for government or local authority branches are business types lacking on the technical side. Basically the person who the project manager likes most, regardless of reviewing their technical ability on previous sites other than quickly browsing through one or two and going "ohh, thats nice isnt it!".
On one occasion I've seen a company win the contract simply because the paper they sent to the project manager sparkled slightly in the light and was followed up by a long phone call. Their websites were utter trash, but they were very good at making money.
I suspect the same happened here
and "netstat -putin" secretly terminates all applications and pretends there's no open ports?
Ok so we've all been saying... this year is time for Linux on the desktop, maybe we're finally here.
A combination of Windows Vista flunking and not meeting the needs of consumers (compared to Windows XP), the business requirement to bring down prices (no Windows tax) so their range of laptops can be more competitive with in the market their targeting (basically small businesses and students) means that Linux is starting to become a possibility, considering Ubuntu is often said to be easier to use than Windows XP.
Now, can you seriously consider hardware vendors like Lenovo pushing laptops with Vista pre-installed when they know battery life descreased and the minimum required specs will be seriously increased, driving up the base cost of the machine.
Yeah, I can see where these people are coming from, it's a pure business decision with the side effect of getting the Linux geeks on your side.
Ok, so he was sniffing TCP/IP packets for HTTP cookies in unencrypted traffic passing over the same wireless network as him, maybe some nifty tools there but the idea is not new at all.
I went through all the Microsoft shared source licenses months ago, seeing if they could be useful to any projects of mine, or even what sort of problems I'd likely encounter. The only thing which comes close to being an open-source license is the Ms-CL (Microsoft Community License), the least restrictive of the three.
My interpretation was that it started off as the BSD license, then had clauses added for patent claims and the "shared source, all your copyright belong to us" stuff and basically locking the source code to the Ms-CL license forever.
This is not open-source, it's an open-source license for people who just don't get what open-source is about, basically a "we want you to work for free, then we can sell your stuff" license.
The OSI people know this already, but like anything involving lawyers it needs to be handled carefully. I don't however see Microsoft modifying the license just to be OSI approved.
Good job Microsoft, you failed again.
With well chosen resource limits you don't care about vservers stepping on each others toes, what I'm worried about is people running these machines and not patching them or taking any sort of approach to security other than: "It's running Linux, it must be secure".
Now, how long do you expect it to take for them to realize their VPS has been compromised by spammers/hackers/scriptkiddies etc.? Probably much longer than the hosting company because their actively looking out for these things.
With virtualization like linux vserver, xen, vmware etc. there are two main reasons to why people are using it.
1) Consolidation
2) "Containerization" or whatever their calling it today.
The company that I work for are using multiple virtual servers to be able to keep applications separate and be able to migrate them from machine to machine easier which is a common use for vmware (e.g. the appliance trend). So you're trading performance and memory usage for security and robustness/redundancy.
Across maybe 100-200 servers, the number of vservers we have is astonishing (probably around 1200 to 1500, which is a bit of a nightmare to maintain) which are hosting customer applications, when an application starts to use more resources the vserver is moved over to a machine with less servers on it, and gradually to it's own server, which in the long run saves money & downtime.
The other major industry using them is the hosting industry, allowing customers a greater amount of personalization rather than the one-size-fits-all cpanel hosting companies. This is the real industry where consolodation has increased, biting into the hardware markets possible sales because thousands of customers are now leasing shared resources, instead of leasing actual hardware.
Either way, the number of new machines (virtual) machines and ip addresses, all managed by different people is becoming a management nightmare. Now everybody can afford a virtual dedicated server on the internet regardless of their technical skills which often ends up as a bad buy (lack of memory and resource constraints compared to shared hosting on a well maintained server).
"When Watchfire first alerted Microsoft's security response team to what Afek and Sharabani had found, they were met with skepticism, and understandably so, Allan said. The company had known since 2005 about the IIS bug that caused the crash, but it was considered a simple denial-of-service problem and not remotely exploitable."
Worded a little ambiguously, but I presume it's Microsoft their talking about... How can a bug like this get through the QA process since 2005 and multiple product versions without getting fixed?
Oh the days :)
"Mum, look I created my first virus"
They bearly worked and I understood nothing about the internals, but VCL is definately a prime example that this has been done many times before and is nothing new.
Take a look at ID software's Quake and Doom series. Once the game stops being mainstream the engine is released under the GPL license but the game content (e.g. the game and the reason for purchasing it) is still proprietary and commercial.
So you get several approaches from it, the engine continues to be maintained (see FuhQuake and QuakeForge) for people still playing the original game and it's mods, but commercial games can still be created using the engine as a pre-developed platform allowing developers to focus more on creating good content and playable games instead of splarting hundereds of thousands on commercial development (e.g. the equivilent of licensing the game engine from ID software directly, but it's open-source).
When game engines become open-source, I've seen nothing but benifits in all cases, with the exception that cheating becomes much easier (which in tight knit gaming communities isn't a problem).
Well, those cars must have previously been known by the congestion charging system unless they were driven in at night from outside of London and have never previously been in London.
Even then, speeding tickets? Parking tickets? license registration? MOT?
It's almost impossible for a car to stay anonymous when in the UK and especially in London, but attaching this car to a terrorist or terrorist suspect is something which needs active human integration, which is why the police are being given access to the network.
90% of the time, the police have nothing to do with instigating investigations against terrorist threads, these come from MI5 and MI6.
So the question comes back, why are the police being given access to this network when the majority of the crimes they have to deal with are every day things, like tracking bail absconders?
Though if you were taking the paranoid approach you'd consider, why haven't MI5/MI6 already got access to the network for this sort of thing? Or if they did, would we ever know about it?
Basically, privacy is a given human right, regardless of the individual; whether this is going to be used only for tracking "criminals" I've seen many times the re-definition of criminial which fits myself in other countries (remember when it was illegal to be homosexual?).
Even though I don't like the congestion charging cameras, they should be used only for the purpose that was approved of. I'm just wondering is it too late for 'citizens' to call a vote to appeal this decision, or will the sheep approve it even if we did?
Yes, but what happens when somebody picks this up at their friends house on their macbook, then goes to starbucks and reads some e-mail via the in-store wireless connection, then goes to work (in an Apple shop or whatever).
I'm definately not saying that this is as aggressively populating as some of the bigger windows worms, but all you need are some high-profile cases (an Apple store, a few senators/MPs etc.) and it'll be enough cannon fodder for a whole line of "Anti Virus" products for the Mac.
One of the main radio stations I listen to in the UK has a no-pirating policy:
Oh, and nobody plays mafia^WRIAA music unless it's part of a mashup, in which case it's the least of their problems.
In such a niche area like this, there's hardly any piracy; the problems only start when you're playing music "owned" by large corporations or copyright federations, which I think is very damaging to the music industry.
Internet radio, and to some extent some of the BBC 'alternative' radio stations and shows (John Peel's show for example) are taking it's place.
Of the radio stations I listen to, there isn't a 24 hour schedule so whoever's broadcasting late at night during weekdays will probably just stick on random albums when they need to do other things (collect kids, make dinner or whatever) or just play random interesting tracks for the first 30 minutes of their show. Or in the case of John peel, completely random things all the time.
Commercialism of radio has seriously diluted the quality of music generally being played, and if anything is keeping people ignorant to other types of music.
The ASDA brand of super markets (Walmart owned) has had these for ages at the end of the walkways & store carparks.
:D
It's amazing how many older people I've seen caught out by this because they need assistance to get their shopping to their car or to the bus. A few times I've seen ASDA attendants dragging the locked trolley for them instead of waiting 5 minutes to get somewbody out to unlock it.
In theory it works, in practice people just carry the trolley over fences to stop it being locked up while people with disabilities or frail people end up being given a hard time.
It's like DRM but for shopping trolleys
You're confusing the GPL and LGPL licenses with each other. If you use GPL code in your project, all your other code must be licensed under the GPL as it's now a derivative of the GPL code. If you use LGPL code in your project, you do not have to license your code under the LGPL as long as it's kept entirely separately (e.g. a library, and not built-in). Either way, if you modify GPL or LGPL code or create a derivative product somehow, you must redisturbute the LGPL/GPL licensed parts with any changes you've made.
However - neither Windows XP 32-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit are free, which means you'd have to go out and splart $100+ for an operating system just so you can access your iPhone from iTunes..
:)
Although I don't know anybody that would be mad enough to pay for a downgrade
How will this effect VoIP/ISTP companies in other countries than the USA, for example, would making VoIP calls through a UK provider to the USA with a UK number as the caller id be considered caller ID spoofing?
I'm getting pretty worried about this because our company terminates a huge number of calls to the states, and although we go through a verification process to check the customer has the right to use the callerid you can never be entirely sure if you're going to get caught out somewhere!
Also, does anybody know where I can get the full text of this bill? It doesnt seem to be available on the website (so don't blame me for not RTFA ok).
With Sun's slow improvements in the multi-core arena (the T1 & T2 systems) and their low power requirements their probably in for a good run at the top 10-20 spots on the Top 500 list.
:)
Consider 500 top-end T2 systems hooked up to some very fast switching hardware and you're performance per wattage ratio are going to be very persuasive to those running big data centers, although with the T1 systems the only thing which stopped us adopting them was the shared FPU (telephony codec transcoding sucks on them).
Could we see suns equivalent of IBM's BlueGene system appearing next year? I definitely think so
Sorry? I am protesting, I am sending letters to my local MP, I did vote but not for Labor. Am I pissed off about it... yes! "Popular Polititions" in general are lying bastards by nature, and I feel hopeless, just like many other people, as to what can be done to change it. Their popular because they pretend to go with the majority, but separately further their own goals regardless.
Of the radio stations I listen to, most are very niche internet radio stations run by DJs and the associated community. Out of maybe 100 djs, a good 20-30% of them actually produce their own tracks and use it as a form of marketing for themselfs.
We're talking very very small record labels here, with a handful of releases a jear catering for DJs. This is so highly in contrast with what the big labels are doing that I really don't think they have enough perspective to suggest that this should be adopted on a wider scale.
But as you mention, this only applies to artists signed to big-name labels rather than us little folks... but I've not heard many internet radio stations playing artists signed to labels which are members of the RIAA etc. mainly because it's all mass marketed crap.
The only people I can see being hit by this are the stations which play lesser known pop from the 60s through to the 80s, who's copyright is still held by the big record labels but is no longer available in stores or on commercial radio.
Are these machines 64bit too?
It'd be nice bragging rights: I've got Linux/Windows running on a C64!
When I was in primary school (say about the age of 8 or 9) somebody tried practicing a flying ninja judo super kick on me (yeah man), so I went flying backwards and nearly cracked my skull on a box behind me.
So.. standing there, crying, blood spurting out of my head... and only like a month before the school had enforced a policy that none of the teachers could apply bandages or provide medical aid unless they'd gone through the right training course (which only one or two had done) and can't phone an ambulance without the parents permission.
At the time all the parents thought it was absolutely stupid.. sure kids get hurt, scape knees, fall over & bash teeth... but the people who are _legally_ supposed to be supervising us weren't allowed to do anything.
In the end I had to go and sit down in the staff room with a towel wrapped around my head so I didn't drip everwhere until my dad could get away from work, it took about 30 minutes... then another 30 minutes waiting in triage to be seen.
It's bullshit, and it's only getting worse... I fear within 5 years the UK will have schools doing similar things, which is just degredating society.
Had it been more serious I could've ended up with brain damage because of these stupid policies.
My two cents...
Oh really? I'm going through the whole recruitment process again at the moment and it's a pain in the ass.
.pdf rather than whatever editor-specific file format I created it in for some of the reasons the parent outlined, only to have 60-70% of the companies e-mail me back asking for a .doc version.
I make a specific point to send my documents as
What the fuck! It's created using managed XML, XSL and html2ps/ps2pdf, somebody show me a magic 'Convert to useless Microsoft format' program and I'll use it, but for now I'm going to use technology that's key to the industry I work in to show off my resume.
Not just that, but only a few people have actually been slapped by a bit of intuition and asked for a HTML copy, or just copied and pasted text from the PDF into their recruiting application.. the rest just send e-mails back and forth until they give up and say I cant use their company out of frustration.
We really _do_ need Microsoft Office, because that's all those office monkeys know, I thought we standardized on PS (and later PDF) a long time ago, and now their trying to tell me different just because the completed their 'Touch Typing for Beginners' course with flying colours.
Give me a break, use your keyboard to type it in, do your bloody job, and stop bitching when you realize your workflow is too inflexible to handle non-microsoft junkies.