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malvolio replied

4 March 2010, 08:13
However I got a draft contract from a major supplier the other day, worth around £25m over the next few years. The last page had the banner "PDF produced by xxxx, free for non-commercial use"....

Trivial but my client is in law enforcement, and it made for an interesting conversation with the sales team, starting with "Why are you using illegal software?"

Last edited by malvolio; 4 March 2010, 08:16.
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RichardCranium replied

4 March 2010, 07:40
Originally posted by doodab View Post

What are they using?

Whatever the consultancies tell them to use. Needless to say, they're big on SAP.
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doodab replied

4 March 2010, 07:31
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

watch im

he'll be trouble

still if you ever catch him using Firefox, notepad++, open office, GIMP, java, you can pounce

gggrrrrr your a tiiiiiiiiiiigger

Or Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle Database, Websphere, MQ, VMWare, eclipse, Visual Studio or solaris

All free to download and demo or use.

What are they using?
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suityou01 replied

3 March 2010, 22:55
Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post

Today I heard a technical architect say something to a junior procurement bod that I shall add to my Pearls of Wisdom list:

"A professional organisation such as ours should not be downloading and using free-to-download bloody software, FFS!"

He has now indoctrinated this young software and hardware procurement officer in the belief that all software must be paid for to be of any worth.

Twat.

watch im

he'll be trouble

still if you ever catch him using Firefox, notepad++, open office, GIMP, java, you can pounce

gggrrrrr your a tiiiiiiiiiiigger
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RichardCranium replied

3 March 2010, 22:35
Quote of the Day

Today I heard a technical architect say something to a junior procurement bod that I shall add to my Pearls of Wisdom list:

"A professional organisation such as ours should not be downloading and using free-to-download bloody software, FFS!"

He has now indoctrinated this young software and hardware procurement officer in the belief that all software must be paid for to be of any worth.

Twat.
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chef replied

3 March 2010, 15:24
the file is spelt correctly, I just assumed the swear filter would block it so I added the #
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Churchill replied

3 March 2010, 15:23
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

Beat me to it.

Tell him he should restrict himself to alphanumeric filenames without hash marks.

Filename's too long! 8 & 3!!!
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Mich the Tester replied

3 March 2010, 15:22
Originally posted by doodab View Post

It's probably treating everything after the # as a comment.

Beat me to it.

Tell him he should restrict himself to alphanumeric filenames without hash marks.
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doodab replied

3 March 2010, 15:20
It's probably treating everything after the # as a comment.
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chef started a topic Quote of the day

3 March 2010, 15:16
Quote of the day

Colleague: <sigh> <huff> <mutter, mutter>
Chef: everything alright?
Colleague: hmm not really, I wanna get this working before I go
Chef: what is it you're trying to do?
Colleague: well, right now im trying to debug the problem to a file called OhForF#cksSake.txt and even that isn't going too well..
Chef: hmm I'll leave you to it then, beer later?
Colleague: yup, definitely
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