Journal mcgrew's Journal: Damn it, Microsoft, you incompetent sons of bitches! 8
I like Open Office but needed
I had an idea for an article about playing cards, so googled for open source playing card images. There should be plenty since playing cards have been around for hundreds of years. However, finding them was really difficult. I managed to find an
The internet said GIMP would open it, but it couldn't; it repeatedly crashed trying to open it. I tried importing it into Open Office, and got a blank screen. The internet said you could import it with Word, so I opened Word... or tried to. It wouldn't open and that I should try again or go to Control Panel to "repair" it. Tried reopening Word, same thing. Booted the computer and tried again, same thing. So I go into control panel and tried to repair, and that stupid fucking thing said I needed an internet connection. IT'S ON THE INTERNET, DAMN IT!!!
I don't know where Microsoft finds its programmers, skid row? Homeless shelters? Crack houses?
It's done this before. I had to reinstall the God damned OS to fix that stupid, stupid, program.
They've always been terrible at networking. DOS and Windows 95 had no native networking at all. When I first got on the internet in 1997 I had to buy a floppy with a network stack and that primitive browser that the U of I came up with. They STILL can't do networking well. I assigned this computer's "documents" folder as the A: drive on the HP. Whenever I try to access it, it says the Acer isn't running, but if I go through "network" it works.
Look, you idiots running Microsoft, here's a suggestion: the next time you roll out a new OS, how about making sure it actually WORKS?
I'm in a really bad mood right now.
It is not incompetence. It is quite purposeful (Score:1)
You are expected to use only Microsoft products.
Unfortunately you are venting at psychopaths. All they hear is white noise. They do not care. They do not have to. They're the *phone company*
And these magazines are being assholes if all they accept are Word .docs. Have you tried "persuading" them otherwise?
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Unfortunately you are venting at psychopaths
Quite true, but better than putting my fist through a wall.
And these magazines are being assholes if all they accept are Word .docs. Have you tried "persuading" them otherwise?
All but one or two are like that. Rather than being assholes I think they're just ignorant and apathetic; Word has become a staple in almost every office. There's no way I could persuade them; they get a thousand submissions a month and print half a dozen. None of them have as yet been mine.
EPS (Score:2)
EPS is Encapsulated PostScript, which is just a postscript file with a bounding box and sometimes a thumbnail image bundled with it. Gimp requires that postscript (ghostscript) be installed in order to rasterize it to an image it can display.
I woud try inkscape for the EPS (Score:2)
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Thank you
moof (Score:1)
DOS and Windows 95 had no native networking at all.
I believe they had MS's networking protocols, NETBIOS or NETBUI or whatever. They just didn't have TCP/IP built in. But they were developed before the Internet took off for the masses. I too remember having to load an additional network stack for DOS/Win95 (plus another for Novell NetWare), back in the day. And it seems like we had to use a special "Warp" edition of OS/2 that would include it. My black-and-white Mac at the time didn't include intertubes connecting smarts either (just AppleTalk networki
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But most of the rest is your own damn fault for insisting on being "alternative".
I'm not quite sure what you mean. I use Oo because I prefer its interface and I prefer not to buy something when there's a free alternative that's superior. When they demanded "no alternatives" I was "fine, Office was on this computer when I bought it so I'll just use that.
I only used Word for magazines, composing in Oo (because it's far less annoying than Word). The problem is Office keeps suiciding and when I try to "repair"
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