Dadoo's Journal: I still hate Windows

So, Friday morning, I had a job interview and I wanted a way to show my future employer I know what I'm doing. Every so often, at my current job, I give a Unix class. Since it needs to be geared towards using our software, I designed the course from scratch and wrote about 70 pages' worth of class notes. I figured they'd contain a fairly reasonably good cross- section of my Unix knowledge.

The problem was, this was a Linux administrator position and I'd used Wordpad to write up the notes. I had no way of knowing if they could read a DOC format file. No problem, I thought, I'll just get on my Windows partition, load the file into Wordpad, and save it as an RTF.

What really happened? Wordpad told me it "couldn't open a Word 6.0 file". Are you kidding me? Granted, I wrote the file on Windows 2000 and I was trying to read it on Windows XP, but that's ridiculous. How did I fix it? I checked my Linux partition for any applications that might help. Fortunately, I had forgotten to unselect Open Office when I installed my system. I simply did what I had intended to do with Windows. It worked perfectly the first time.

It's just one more reason Open Document Format is crucial, if we're going to store public documents on computers.