Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:34:27 -0600 From: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: eivind@yes.no Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <36086C43.3CC89DD5@verinet.com> References: <xzp7lyxb24o.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212120380.1975-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> <19980922145530.20972@follo.net>
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> > And I get the reply "Yeah, but we're standardizing on MS Word". > > And to this you reply something like this: "MS-Word - there is no MS > word. There is just different versions of MS-Word, with the same > problems between them as between different word-processors. Like the > fact that it can't read the old documents - I sometimes feel a little > disconcerned that all the companies that use MS Word throws away their > archives every two years..." > > Eivind. 4000+ Word documents masquerading as ISO material in an enormous, manually 'maintained' directory structure based on department and sub-department names (some of which no longer exist) stored on a Novell file server that crashes thrice weekly. Some quantifiable percentage of these gems are always infected with 'Concept' despite regular sweeps. Now the special people are romping around this beauty leaving behind Word 97 droppings that the regular mopes who are still (!) running 16 bit Word can't open. Why _not_ throw it out? Me? I'm hoping for a meteor. If any fool ever puts me in power I will analyze little repositories like these and fire the top ten contributors annually. Sort of an ISO reap. -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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