Re: [News] Another School Turns to Free Software

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Re: Another School Turns to Free Software

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:38:42 -0700 (PDT), harvey wrote:

> On Jun 2, 7:07 pm, "Canuck57" <dave-no_s...@unixhome.net> wrote:
>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_st...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:89lnj8n77a38.11mpq1ebngtzj.dlg@40tude.net...
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:19:34 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>>| John Nash, network manager and head of ICT for SIA, said: "This academic
>>>>| year, rather than using proprietary software, what we've done is be
>>>>slightly
>>>>| different and use things like the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
>>>>| instead of Photoshop, Scribus for desktop publishing and InkScape, which
>>>>is a
>>>>| full, scalable vector graphics program."
>>
>>> Yea, that will look great on a resume .
>>
>>> I can see it now:
>>
>>> Interviewer: "Do you have any Photoshop experience?"
>>
>>> Job Applicant: " Well I've been using Gimp"
>>
>>> Interviewer: " You don't seem like a Gimp to me. Why are you so hard on
>>> yourself?"
>>
>>> Job Applicant: "No, no no. I didn't say I *am* a Gimp, I said I *use*
>>> Gimp.
>>
>>> It's a *GNU* program.
>>
>>> Interviewer: Oh I see. So it's *new*? What happened to the old version?
>>
>>> Well leave your resume with the secretary and we will be in touch.
>>
>> Or it could go....
>>
>> Interviewer: Hey, can you teach us?
>>
>> Job Applicant: Yep, no problem.
>>
>> Interviewer: When can you start?
>
> Interviewer.. - you say its Free!?
>
> Job Applicant: Yep,
>
> Interviewer.. - And it does virtyally Everythig a $600 Copy of
> photoshop will..
>
> Job Applicant: Yep I can save you a Bunch of dough.. !
>
> Interviewer.. - so when you can you start !

Are you from "Brooklyn" ?



--
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:59:45 -0400, upyurbuttoo wrote:

> "Linonut" <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote in message
> news:6lc1k.4449$UF5.2768@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>>* chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>
>>>>* chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>
>>>>> some idiot forging chrisv wrote:
>>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They probably should. But, not some obscure junk like 'Gimp'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ignore the forger.
>>>>>
>>>>> Erm... Isn't that you?
>>>>>
>>>>> *plonk*
>>>>
>>>>No. Astraweb ==> bad chrisv, Giganews ==> good chrisv.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't that say "Giganews ==> great chrisv"? 8)
>>
>> I am not worthy to wipe your pee-pee <grin>.
>>
> You are a sick MF

At the very least.....

Some of these Linux loons sure are a little odd....

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
 
some idiot forging chrisv wrote:

>"relic" <bogus.relic2@cjb.net> schreef in bericht
>news:484477d4$0$3357$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>
>> Nonsense. There's no such thing as a bad chrisv.

How nice.

><wipes tears from eyes>
>*UNPLONKED*

I think I will unplonk him - give him another chance.
 
"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> schreef in bericht
news:ss7b441cqd07t6jl9928c90l255jgtg2uv@4ax.com...
> some idiot forging chrisv wrote:
>
>>"relic" <bogus.relic2@cjb.net> schreef in bericht
>>news:484477d4$0$3357$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>
>>> Nonsense. There's no such thing as a bad chrisv.
>
> How nice.
>
>><wipes tears from eyes>
>>*UNPLONKED*
>
> I think I will unplonk him - give him another chance.
>


*PLONK*
 
Frank wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:07:41 GMT, Canuck57 wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:89lnj8n77a38.11mpq1ebngtzj.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:19:34 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> | John Nash, network manager and head of ICT for SIA, said: "This
>>>>> academic
>>>>> | year, rather than using proprietary software, what we've done is
>>>>> be slightly
>>>>> | different and use things like the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation
>>>>> Program)
>>>>> | instead of Photoshop, Scribus for desktop publishing and
>>>>> InkScape, which is a
>>>>> | full, scalable vector graphics program."
>>>>
>>>> Yea, that will look great on a resume .
>>>>
>>>> I can see it now:
>>>>
>>>> Interviewer: "Do you have any Photoshop experience?"
>>>>
>>>> Job Applicant: " Well I've been using Gimp"
>>>>
>>>> Interviewer: " You don't seem like a Gimp to me. Why are you so hard on
>>>> yourself?"
>>>>
>>>> Job Applicant: "No, no no. I didn't say I *am* a Gimp, I said I
>>>> *use* Gimp.
>>>>
>>>> It's a *GNU* program.
>>>>
>>>> Interviewer: Oh I see. So it's *new*? What happened to the old version?
>>>>
>>>> Well leave your resume with the secretary and we will be in touch.
>>>
>>> Or it could go....
>>>
>>> Interviewer: Hey, can you teach us?
>>>
>>> Job Applicant: Yep, no problem.
>>>
>>> Interviewer: When can you start?
>>
>>
>> Yea sure.....
>>
>> The idea is to USE Photoshop to produce products that earn the company
>> $$$$$
>>
>> The idea is NOT to have some new hire come into the company and
>> proceed to
>> try and switch the staff, most of whom are probably experts at Photoshop,
>> to Gimp.
>>
>> Obviously you've never worked at a real job or you wouldn't be making an
>> idiotic comment like that.
>>
>> BTW I thought you kill filed me?
>>
> hehehe...I see that we already have one idiot moron loser (mr drunken
> pig in cause you haven't already guessed) who actually thinks that
> "gimp" (where do those fukkin linux FANATICAL ZEALOTS COME UP WITH SUCH
> STUPID FUKKIN NAMES?) is equal to Adobe Photoshop CS3!
> Obviously, all this jackass does is crop his p&s snaps!...LOL!
> Frank
>
It's an Acronym you retard.
 
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