Random Rants

[Shiela_M]

I don't think that is it, because after I sent one to pornhubby, which didn't get saved in outgoing, and it doesnt say I sent him one, I sent one to watcher, which did get saved... I don't get it.

[Asmodel]

Do you have the Default save option turned on Miss Shiela?

[ObiDongKenobi]

Do you have the Default save option turned on Miss Shiela?

Thanks Asmodel and a woo, I didn't know there was a default switch. I always had to click on the save option on each PM.

[Asmodel]

Do you have the Default save option turned on Miss Shiela?

Thanks Asmodel and a woo, I didn't know there was a default switch. I always had to click on the save option on each PM.

Thank YOU Mister Obi, one woo right back at you.
I myself discovered it only recently, while exploring features.
It really is great, as no longer does one have to decide (whether to keep it or not), nor the risk of accidentally forgetting to check that checkbox.

[Asmodel]

Random Rant,
Dunno what the reader may think of me,
But anyone around?

[Asmodel]

Who knows what will happen…
But in any way…
In the end, it’d be MMD or RMD

[Pornhubby]

I am so fucking tired of platform incompatibility, and functional obsolescence. It just seems like all of the software makers are now attempting to force you to use their platform *only*. Where Word doesn’t work with Adobe, Adobe doesn’t work with Word, nothing works with Corel.

I’ve now got a third-party data management system, that has its own proprietary versions of Word and Adobe, and neither of those work with them. I spent my entire day going back-and-forth with a flash drive, just trying to make a couple of changes in a piece of shit document I don’t even give a *fuck* about. I looked at the clock and realized I’d wasted two hours of my life on absolutely nothing.

In my world, we would have Windows XP, Adobe 9, and Word 2009. They were so easy to use.

And I fucking hate the goddamn millennials, who are now Generation X, say “Well just look at this 14 hour tutorial on YouTube, and you’ll know everything you need to know.“ Well fuck you. I don’t have 14 hours of my life to give to anything except eating my favorite woman’s ass. Because in my life, 14 hours is a huge chunk of my remaining life expectancy.

 

End of rant.

[Hilda]

I am so fucking tired of platform incompatibility, and functional obsolescence. It just seems like all of the software makers are now attempting to force you to use their platform *only*. Where Word doesn’t work with Adobe, Adobe doesn’t work with Word, nothing works with Corel.

Definitely not a random rant. I've had similar experiences, not only with documents, but also web content. I used to drive myself to distraction worrying how a file might look on a PC running a different OS or different flavor of MS Word. Likewise web pages. Hours wasted tracking down PCs running obscure software, just to confirm that the pages were displaying correctly.

Decades ago the New York Public Library published guidelines for 'safe' formatting of documents, concluding that Strict XHTML was the way to go. I shudder to think how many months I spent converting web pages to that markup language.

[Shiela_M]

I'm definitely not one of those millennials. I'm always complaining about my work computer and my phone when things go wrong. I always say the same sarcastic phrase.

"I love it when technology makes my life easier."

14 hour YouTube video... could always put that laptop on my back and watch while you eat 🍩😝   😘

[ObiDongKenobi]

Forgive the smirk on my face. A large part of my working life was spent before the advent of personal computers.  Every commercial computer supplier had a different operating system and software was not transportable without at best re-compilation and at worst a re-write.

[Pornhubby]

14 hour YouTube video... could always put that laptop on my back and watch while you eat 🍩😝   😘

I love salty snacks while learning. 🤤🤤🤤

[LtBroccoli]

I am so fucking tired of platform incompatibility, and functional obsolescence. It just seems like all of the software makers are now attempting to force you to use their platform *only*. Where Word doesn’t work with Adobe, Adobe doesn’t work with Word, nothing works with Corel.

Definitely not a random rant. I've had similar experiences, not only with documents, but also web content. I used to drive myself to distraction worrying how a file might look on a PC running a different OS or different flavor of MS Word. Likewise web pages. Hours wasted tracking down PCs running obscure software, just to confirm that the pages were displaying correctly.

Decades ago the New York Public Library published guidelines for 'safe' formatting of documents, concluding that Strict XHTML was the way to go. I shudder to think how many months I spent converting web pages to that markup language.

Years ago I had a long stretch of unemployment between tech jobs.  I worked with a headhunter and was applying to about 200 a week, maybe getting 10 calls.  For my skills and experience at the time, it was way below average.  Even in a depressed market, I should've been out of work 3 weeks, a month tops.  I come to find out the doc version of the resume was corrupted.  I ran a Mac, still do, and back then used Pages for word processing.  It had an option to export to Word.  Problem was that MS released an update that broke doc files coming over from Pages.  I only found this out when I was sent to a new headhunter who actually opened my resume and saw how broken it was on their computer.

After a lot of screaming and crying, I reformatted the resume and exported it as a PDF.  I only sent PDF's out from that point.  If anyone complained, too bad that's what they got.  I went from no leads to 3 offers in a month.  Now it's pretty much standard and an easy thing to do.  When I ask for a resume, I ask for a PDF.  If someone can't figure that part out, they probably shouldn't be anywhere near the tech field.

[Pornhubby]

When I ask for a resume, I ask for a PDF.  If someone can't figure that part out, they probably shouldn't be anywhere near the tech field.

All of the courts in Texas require PDF filings. I have had a lifetime Adobe subscription for 17 years (grandfathered in, so I pay no monthly fee). But here I was today, downloading to flash drive, loading up the files on laptop. I hate my job.

My laptop is 12 years old, and indestructible. I have no idea what I am going to do when the motherboard fails. Probably retire. SMH.

[Hilda]

All of the courts in Texas require PDF filings. I have had a lifetime Adobe subscription for 17 years (grandfathered in, so I pay no monthly fee). But here I was today, downloading to flash drive, loading up the files on laptop. I hate my job.

I may be missing something, but doesn't Windows have native support for PDF? The format has been in the public domain for at least ten years.

[LtBroccoli]

All of the courts in Texas require PDF filings. I have had a lifetime Adobe subscription for 17 years (grandfathered in, so I pay no monthly fee). But here I was today, downloading to flash drive, loading up the files on laptop. I hate my job.

I may be missing something, but doesn't Windows have native support for PDF? The format has been in the public domain for at least ten years.

Pretty sure the newer versions of Word (2016 and beyond) have the ability to export as a PDF.  Word for Mac has it built in, as do almost all of the open source programs nowadays.  It's just whether or not that PDF plays nice with the newest version of Adobe and does all the fill-in features, that's a different story.

[Hilda]

Pretty sure the newer versions of Word (2016 and beyond) have the ability to export as a PDF.  Word for Mac has it built in, as do almost all of the open source programs nowadays.  It's just whether or not that PDF plays nice with the newest version of Adobe and does all the fill-in features, that's a different story.

Ah, fill-in features. I missed that. Thanks for the light-bulb moment. 

[Pornhubby]

Again, and forgive me if I’m being obtuse, I have a third-party proprietary case management system that is fully compatible with neither Adobe nor Word. So I download those documents to my flash drive, then move them to my laptop, where I use Word and/or Adobe to convert them to the format that I need, edit the document, then take it back over to my network desktop computer, and load them back up into the system. It’s just a big fucking pain in the ass. I have been converting word and Adobe back and forth for at least a dozen years.

[Hilda]

Again, and forgive me if I’m being obtuse, I have a third-party proprietary case management system that is fully compatible with neither Adobe nor Word. So I download those documents to my flash drive, then move them to my laptop, where I use Word and/or Adobe to convert them to the format that I need, edit the document, then take it back over to my network desktop computer, and load them back up into the system. It’s just a big fucking pain in the ass. I have been converting word and Adobe back and forth for at least a dozen years.

Not obtuse at all.

It's infuriating when companies and organizations assume that all end users are running the same obsolete software that they are.

[ObiDongKenobi]

I have an HP Envy 6230 printer/copier/scanner and the sofware that comes with it allows me to save a document as a pdf. Seems an unusual (but useful) facility to build into a printer driver.

[Writers Bloque]

My random rant is: Why cant I enjoy collecting something without being judged? I cant buy classic erotica books from the used book store, without the condescending stares. I mean its old books of porn stories that would be considered tame in todays world. But they also look nice on my shelf. All hard back and nice looking.