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 opi
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
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 n
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 03458-
>
> 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 th
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
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
>>
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 repla
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
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 Peterborou
[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
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
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 t
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 re
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 fi
What bothers me about this is...
TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO POST: address your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO HAVE FRIENDS JOIN: tell them to visit http://www.nhjobslist.com/
THE ARCHIVES: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/nhjobslist/messages
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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.
>>
>> 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
> 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: [N
[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 -
>>
>
> 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-ma
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